Universal AI Starter Kit

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The Universal AI Starter Kit is an easy to use, highly customizable AI system with many different options designed to help make your game fun and challenging.

AI is a very important element of many games. The perceived difficulty and intelligence of the AI bots in your game can mean the difference between your game being fun, frustrating or just plain boring. The Universal AI Starter Kit is designed to make it easier for you to create a more fulfilling gaming experience.

The Universal AI Starter Kit is designed to give your game the type of Artificial Intelligence that is expected by today’s players and can be an asset to almost any game that is in need of combat AI. However, this kit also features some options for non-aggressive AI bots as well.

By using The Universal AI Starter Kit, the enemies in your game will take on a life of their own and, through their newfound “intelligence”, will become much more challenging to do battle with. They will also be able to chase you, target you and better circumvent obstacles.

With a wide selection of various settings, behaviors and actions to choose from, your game’s AI will be a force to be reckoned with!

The Universal AI Starter Kit can be used by beginners or professionals alike and does not necessarily require much, if any, modification. It can be used as a foundation for a more specialized AI system in a game, or it can be used as is; depending on the designers needs. On top of that, it’s entirely scripted and doesn’t require any source code changes!



  • Eight selectable behavior modes, including both aggressive and non-aggressive. Select from chase, guard, leashed, turret, teammate, NPC, KillableNPC, and escort behaviors.
  • A team system. Have as many teams and bots as you want; with selectable friendly fire and free for all options.
  • Bots can automatically change weapons based on your specific settings. Select from pattern, best, range, and random weapon modes.
  • Easy installation and heavily commented and documented code. No source code changes are required but the stock source is utilized for maximum performance.
  • The foundations of a dialogue system.
  • An advanced spawning system. Spawn or kill as many, or as few, bots as you wish to at any time.
  • Advanced movement and navigation that requires no nodes or mesh. Bots can follow their selected target or use basic pathing.
  • Performance optimized enemy targeting, selecting a target either by distance or lowest health.
  • A GUI based marker editor, great for non-programmers.
  • You can have scripted events using non-looping paths and trigger based spawning.
  • Numerous distance, weapon and other variables that can each be set per datablock and/or individual bot.
The Universal AI Starter Kit requires the Torque Game Engine or Torque Game Engine Advanced.

Torque Game Engine Minimum Requirements:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Pentium III 1000
512 MB RAM
OpenGL or DirectX Compatible 3D Graphics Accelerator, DirectX compatible Soundcard

OS X 10.4/10.5
G5 or Intel Mac
512 MB RAM
OpenGL Compatible 3D Graphics Accelerator


Torque Game Engine Advanced Minimum Requirements:
Windows XP or Vista
Intel or AMD Processor @ 1 Ghz
256 MB RAM (1GM recommended for Vista)
100% DirectX compatible video card with 128 MB video RAM required

OSX 10.5.6
Intel-based Macs only
2 GB RAM
ATI or nVidia shader model 2.0+ video cards with 256 MB video RAM required