How to make an enemy using Cogito?

[bobakafishii]

I made a basic enemy navigation test orb that rolls around and follows the player. I was trying to add the health attribute in order to make it take damage from weapons by making a Cogito Object node a child of the Rigid Body root and it didn't work. It resulted in the orb acting more like a traditional object that just sat on the ground. I wanted to see if anyone has made a basic enemy or some form of NPC that uses the health attribute, and if so how did you make it work?

[bobakafishii]

Never mind, just saw that a basic enemy has been added

[Phazorknight]

Sorry! I was away a couple of days, so I missed this.
This was requested quite a bit so I'm currently implementing a generic enemy.
It still has some issues and is not documented yet, but hope it already helps.

[WildWoodsmith]

[ac-arcana]

I would suggest that AI is not in Cogito's scope really.

There are already very good Godot assets for FSM, GOAP, and Utility AIs.

If you're looking for AI that doesn't "beeline" you probably need some A* pathing and more behaviors than just chase and attack.

[Phazorknight]

@WildWoodsmith i mean, how you want your enemy ai to behave is highly game-specific (and then enemy specific).
Like @ac-arcana pointed out, there's quite a few Godot assets out there to manage behaviour.

Even the basic state machine that I've included in Cogito can be used to customize the behavior to your needs.
The enemy has a nav agent component, so it does use the nav mesh to move to a target. This can be modified get other behaviours.