Inside the Vault - Jean-Sylvere Simonet

[Brother None]

Another Inside the Vault. No Fallout question.<blockquote>What’s your job at Bethesda?
I am one of the AI Programmers and I am responsible for Pathfinding, that is, figuring out how NPCs navigate around the world. Considering how organic our environments are and the huge variance in scales of our NPCs, pathfinding has turned out to be quite a challenge. Add to that huge explosions that move/destroy everything around, and you get the idea of how complicated it becomes. As a consequence, my work involves a lot of 2d/3d math, writing search algorithms and dealing with multithreaded optimizations.</blockquote>Link: Inside the Vault - Jean-Sylvere Simonet.

 

[simdude]

Question: "Have you played the previous Fallout games ?"

Answer: "What's a Fallout game ?"

 

[Cold Zer0]

I guess there's no use trying to force that question any further but it's fun I guess

On the topic I don't think that he needs to play any game. If he's working on path finding it's not necessary to play F1 and F2. But I would if I was him. At least to take a look at it.

 

[Deleted member 53669]

Bethesda Programed Response # 3731.9

 

[Bernard Bumner]

Considering how organic our environments are and the huge variance in scales of our NPCs, pathfinding has turned out to be quite a challenge.

NPC, lost up a tree?

Add to that huge explosions that move/destroy everything around, and you get the idea of how complicated it becomes.

Does he mean permenantly deformable environments, or just pathfinding during individual combat sessions?

And, are huge explosions going to be a regular issue? Huge?