Behaviour Concepts
Workflow
In reality, many animals from ants to humans tend to follow three basic rules whenever it wants to do something:
- Observe the immediate surroundings
- Decide on what to do
- Enact on the decision
Dani AI models these rules in the form of nodes connecting to each other to create a context of what the AI will do. Each node is specialized in general groups according to the chart below:
| Node Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Observer | Gathers information for the AI based on the current surroundings, e.g. the agent’s current health. |
| Decision | Contains actions that are executed when certain conditions run, e.g. running away when low on health. |
| Action | What the AI is currently doing or will do, e.g. finding a point to run away to and play the run animation. |
The entire behaviour within Dani AI runs in the following order:
- Observer
- Decision
- Action
Thus, observers gather information similar to an organism’s senses, decisions act as an organism’s thought patterns, which are then supplemented by a series of actions to perform the thought.