How Pathfinding Works In Supreme Commander 2

Pretty impressive.

Oh that A-star.

Not bad. I tried making a small RTS-style game in my InfoTech class and without knowing how to pathfind, it's a hell of a thing to program nicely.
 
Well done guys!

Thats amazing. I want to play this now.

Very cool.  I was part of a team that designed a simple, fast RTS for a large touchscreen device and designing good pathfinding solutions was an immense challenge.  We didn't come up with anything as good as this haha.

sounds like he's calling it "spring commander 2"

Funny that the pathfinding sucked so bad in the demo.  My bombers got stuck in the mountains repeatedly, very annoying.

This feels like something that should have been in RTSes for a long time.

Was "shit" really necessary? "Changes the shit out of RTS gaming!" ... like, really? :|

" From a programmers perspective, that's really freakin awesome. However, i don't think anybody else really cares all that much.. Kinda sad, cause this really is some really awesome stuff happening here. "

  It's impressive and pleasing to see how far we've come just seeing these seemingly small changes but it does make an impression on those who play these games. Though this type of flow path finding I think we first saw in starcraft II. Not to say "SC2 DID IT FIRST" but the first time I noticed this path finding technique at least.     

That is something that should have existed a while ago, but still nice that we're finally seeing it. Still won't buy your damn game, though. 

" Was "shit" really necessary? "Changes the shit out of RTS gaming!" ... like, really? :| "

" Was "shit" really necessary? "Changes the shit out of RTS gaming!" ... like, really? :| "

" Was "shit" really necessary? "Changes the shit out of RTS gaming!" ... like, really? :| "

Curious to see how this compares to the Starcraft 2 pathfinding algorithm.

Yo dawg, this game is already out

Having worked on pathfinding before, this stuff is very cool.
 
If anyone's interested, the technology he mentioned is detailed in a paper titled "Continuum Crowds". The research project website is here.

YAWN

News flash!!! A game developer knows how to use multi-dimensional arrays! 
Unprecedented! An actual working algorithm! 

What's funny is that there are reports out there that the pathfinding sucks hard.
 
Amusing!

Who the fuck cares? Ask why he turned Supreme Commander into Command & Conquer 3.25.

Im actually impressed

Bah, no details on  the algorithm.

" What's funny is that there are reports out there that the pathfinding sucks hard.  Amusing! "

So A* with flocking then? I would like to see this example mixed with Terrain and Buildings.

Hope Blizzard sees this.

Wow awesome! I was so impressed that i dropped my sandwich! (on to the plate, fortunately no sandwich was harmed).   Makes me interested in RTSes again

That's.......actually pretty cool.

" That is something that should have existed a while ago, but still nice that we're finally seeing it. Still won't buy your damn game, though.  "

Quite impressive.

I think it is really awesome new way of handling such an old facet of the RTS genre.  That said - I am so familiar with how the old system works in nearly every game that I wonder if it is going to be confusing at first.  Anyway, looks awesome is my point.

" From a programmers perspective, that's really freakin awesome. However, i don't think anybody else really cares all that much.. Kinda sad, cause this really is some really awesome stuff happening here. "

Wouldn't it be easier to allow them to just walk through each other?  Bamn.  Problem solved.
 
Do they still get hung up walking around corners?

That's fantastic. The pathfinding was one of my biggest gripes about the first game, glad to see something done to it. The first Supreme Commander's pathfinding was almost enough to ruin the game for me, even.
 
@Bgrngod said:

" Wouldn't it be easier to allow them to just walk through each other?  Bamn.  Problem solved.  Do they still get hung up walking around corners? "

dag yo, dat looks goooood!

This sounds nice and all but it still doesn't solve problems of units getting caughtt up on terrain and going off on their own, since it's still happening in this game.

That's really impressive if it actually works like that normally.

My jaw fucking dropped when I saw that.  Please be real.

In the demo the pathfinding was absolutely terrible. I played it for less then an hour, but I had at least 30% of my units getting stuck some time or just not figuring out what to do.

As sciencey person that stuff seems pretty cool regardless of the game.

First trailer that actually makes me want to play the game.

I hated the demo but I might buy it anyway just because Chris Taylor is so damn nice!

Strangely in the reviews people say that there were a lot problems with path-finding... Pity, I like GPG and Chris in particular and I'm sad to see them fail... The games is already 81% on metacritic *sad*
 
I really hope sh*t like that doesn't happen with Chaos Rising which is the RTS I'm most looking forward to.