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AI Development Skirmish AI's, are what the Computer Opponents in games are called. Developing a good Skirmish AI is a major undertaking, and requires quite a bit of know how. As the SY's have more important things to do than develop an AI, they have left this job up to the community. The community has risen to the challenge remarkably well, releasing quite a few AI's. There are currently 4 major skirmish AI's, AAI (by submarine), NTai(by AF), OTAI(by veylon), and KAI(by krogothe). KAI is not currently available to the public. There is also talk of Epic AI which will be the future successor of NTai and promises along with KAI to dwarf the existing AI's. Some people may have JCAI, which was bundled with spring but is out of date. AAI 0.63 and NTai XE4 are bundled with spring atm.... Goto AI page

Code greenai - A page with basic documentation for the Global AI interface. Global AI Interface Jouninkomiko has a topic on the Global AI Interface running here. Metal Handler Class Cain has developed and released a Metal Handler Class that succesfully finds metal spots on maps, which can be a major stumbling block for many AI developers. Information about it can be found in this thread. Since then a new algorithm has been written by krogothe that greatly improves upon this,a nd is used by all 4 major skirmish AI's

Research K-man's Spring AI documentation Useful existing documentation on the Spring unit AI, however this is not related to the Global AI. Darkstars - AF's main site, has a lot of theory on it, including details of his NTai project 5 Matrix AI 1,2,3 - A thread discussing Triaxx' theory and plans for his AI 5 matrix AI/Wormhole AI "Research about Pathfinding, AI and Voronoi diagrams" A forum post by Gabba. Academic research papers on AI in RTS games A forum post by NeuronExMachina. AI research Material - Research links to articles and documents about AI Wikipedia AI - AI documentation on wikipedia