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Project M.AI.S. Multi-threaded AI system Per Erskjäns game engineer

Project M.AI.S. Multi-threaded AI system Per Erskjäns game engineer. Project goals. A system that scales to the number of available cores. AI implemented with a data oriented behavior tree. Work with a data oriented mindset. Flocking behavior with simple graphical representation.

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Project M.AI.S. Multi-threaded AI system Per Erskjäns game engineer

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  1. Project M.AI.S.Multi-threaded AI systemPer Erskjänsgame engineer

  2. Project goals • A system that scales to the number of available cores. • AI implemented with a data oriented behavior tree. • Work with a data oriented mindset. • Flocking behavior with simple graphical representation. • AI behavior not the main focus.

  3. Project reasons • Get experience working with a multi-threaded environment. • Get experience working with a behavior tree. • Train my self in data oriented design.

  4. Result • 50 – 85 % framerate gain with 2 threads. • Not tested on quadcore computer. • Gain depends on computational cost. • Only one class with heritage.

  5. Result • A data oriented behavior tree. • A component based entity system. • There are many oppertunities for optimization, was not a focus.

  6. System design Framework Main loop update Scheduler Graphics system update Movement system changes update AI system changes update Sensory system Distribute changes

  7. System design • Onechangeque per thread, usingthreadlocalstorage. • Each system haveownership over 0 – manyattributes. Onlyoneowner per attribute. • Max numberofentitesarepreallocatedinto system specificarrays at application start.

  8. System design • Serial or parallel system updatedepending on entitynumbers. • In parallelupdate the update loop is split in to tasks. • Intel ThreadingBuilding Blocks, used for task managment.

  9. Behavior tree design The implementation is a data oriented solution without heritage, virtual functions and recursion. The whole tree is laid out in a flat array in a depth first order.

  10. Behavior tree design All nodes share the same data structure; struct BehaviorTreeNode { node_types::Enum node_type; union { u32                       end; BehaviorFunction execute; }; }; After the creation of a tree (or loaded it from disk) the array is run through a initiation function to set the correct function pointers.

  11. Behavior tree design • Each AI entity is represented as a BehaviorTreeInterpreterobject, containing a blackboard (keeps the entityknowledge) and a pointer to the appropriatebehaviortree. • On each frame an interpreter  function loops through the behavior tree.

  12. Behavior tree design • The parent nodes are pushed or poped to/from a stack and used to decide how to handle a return state from a behavior function.

  13. Problems • Not to many problems but some things that took more time than needed to solve. • Some really stupid misstakes like a (–) instead of a (+) in some calculations. • Some strange bugs with SFML.

  14. Conclusion • Did learn much, both small and big things. • Learned most from research, not implementation. • Didn’t get as deep knowledge of task managment as planed. Mainly because of TBB. • Unit testing could have helped.

  15. Questions ?

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