Advanced AI for Games; Behaviour Trees (Unity 6 Compatible) (Udemy.com)

This course teaches a very important tool for designing and implementing character behavior in games. Behaviour Trees are essential for creating intelligent, dynamic, and responsive game characters, and this course explains them clearly and effectively. It also demonstrates everything through actual implementation in Unity using C#, which makes the concepts practical and easy to apply.

Another great course from Penny. As an Unreal AI programmer, I use behavior trees and blackboards every day, but I wanted to expand that knowledge to how to do them in Unity. With this course I now have a solid knowledge of how to create BTs & BBs, even though they're not built-in to the AI code of the engine, as they are with Unreal. I look forward to expanding my exploration & development of more advanced AI techniques in Unity, perhaps even exporting concepts from Unreal to Unity to make my AI behaviors even better.

Excellent course. The course is great if you're looking for a course to explain and implement the core elements of a behavior tree. I like course like this one, because it give me a tool that I can use in future projects. This course was exactly what I was looking for and I look forward to taking the GOAP course in the future. Only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because I posted a question 3 days ago and still haven't received a response. Not a big deal though, as the course was taught well and I figured out a working solution.

Penny does a great job at teaching the base Behaviour Tree concepts, plus the implementations are really fun and interesting! Unfortunately I feel like its missing quite a lot in the quality of the API & the code in general, there's a lot of power in this to make a way more reusable system, for example using Scriptable Objects and maybe an editor window for easy design and debugging. Otherwise, it is a really good course!

Fantastic course. I'm very appreciative of Penny for covering intermediate topics like behaviour trees to this extent. The code could be cleaner and a git repo or something more than the occasional script/project snapshot would have been nice but it doesn't detract significantly from the course. I particularly enjoyed the fact that the course doesn't just introduce you to behaviour trees, implement them and then leave you to figure out the practicalities yourself. It actually spends a good amount of time over the last few sections manipulating and debugging the behaviour trees so you leave the course with what feels like practical experience and not just theoretical knowledge.

I thought the word Advanced in the course title actually meant it. I have looked and many behavior trees and have seen multiple techniques used. Some use injection while some use only events. Better behavior trees include some methods for sending or at least responding to events. I was also disappointed because there was no graphical editor. The patrons bunching up at the door to the gallery is something I would never want to have happen in a game.

This is one of the best courses on behavior trees you can find. You not only build your own BT but you get fantastic explanations of the "whys" behind the functionality. This makes using and understanding premade BT assets like Behavior Designer a simple thing. After this course you will have an easy time adding BT to your own AIs.

This course is awesome! Dr. Penny is the only one who lectures about game AI techniques such as BTs and GOAP. I've completed both now. I've been using Unreal Engine in my workplace over a year but i'm using Unity since 2010. The Behavior Trees in Unreal are great so, if you'd like to carry your experience to Unity and create your own library I highly recommend this course. One request for Dr. Penny, please use different sound when you edit out something. The one you use scared the hell out of me :D.

I picked up this course to learn the basic building blocks that make up a BT. They cover how to set up a BT as well as the steps to create your own logic and types of leaf nodes. I like how if there is a problem with our code they explain as to WHY its happening and provide a great fix. There are also times where they provide insight on how to solve problems in the future on our BT/ Nodes as well as create our own custom Decorators and Composites. There are some issues though Overall 4/5. Would have been awesome if they showed us how to use a visual editor/visual scripting for our BT but honestly the way its set up you can easily live without one as long as you keep each parent node/children organized. I should mention there is a lot of going back and removing code, various video cuts where penny quickly changes code and it can be hard to follow. Even as someone who rarely has issues following tutorials it can become a bit scattered, though i understand there was a lot to cover . Also as of now the Resources folder with the fallback is BROKEN. I actually had to re-start the tutorial completely because my code was broken, I downloaded the Fallback Behavior Folder to replace my project and it was even worse! So RIP 4 and 1/2 hours of time. I think with bit more organization this would have been a definite 5/5 or even 6/5. Overall it was a good tutorial series and I plan on purchasing more material from Penny.

Amazing course on behaviour trees, Penny gives a very detailed explanation on the structure, a potential library, and excellent challenges to learn. As someone that has taken many "intermediate" level courses I must warn people, most of them truly aren't, this stays true to that, it is not for beginners by any means, you should be comfortable with coding while taking the course or you'll have a very hard time with it since a lot of the concepts, outside Behaviour Trees, won't be explained.