Unity squads and crowds
Coordinates Unity NPC groups with clear membership, limited shared knowledge and temporary position reservations. Prevents abandoned cover claims and stale roles after death or pooled reuse.
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When is it useful?
Use it when enemies compete for cover, crowd narrow passages or retain group roles after death and pooled reuse.
What does it help you do?
- Tracks coordinator membership through death, disable and pooling.
- Assigns reachable tactical positions with owned, expiring reservations.
- Shares bounded observations and staggers costly group updates.
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Coordinate six Unity enemies around three cover positions and a narrow doorway. Assign reachable positions, release reservations when an enemy dies and stagger expensive group updates. Disable and reuse a squad member, then verify it receives a fresh role and the remaining enemies can use the vacated cover.
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NPC Squads and Crowd Coordination
Inspect existing navigation/movement authority, encounter rules, actor counts and the per-frame AI budget. Separate group decisions from each member's perception, action execution and locomotion.
- Give the coordinator explicit membership and lifetime. Register/unregister on spawn, death, disable and pooling; invalidate reused actor identities so old reservations cannot affect a new lifetime.
- Assign roles or tactical slots to valid members. Project candidate positions onto reachable navigation and check cover/line-of-fire rules rather than sending every actor to the target's exact point.
- Make reservations owned, expiring and cancellable. Release them when a path fails, an action is interrupted, the target changes or a member disappears. Define a fallback if every useful slot is occupied.
- Share alerts as bounded knowledge: source, observation time, last-known position and confidence. A shared Transform reference must not silently update an unseen target's location forever.
- Coordinate spacing/steering with the existing motor and NavMesh avoidance. Local separation cannot solve disconnected paths or a blocked chokepoint; diagnose global routing separately.
- Bound neighbor searches with suitable spatial filtering and stagger expensive path/role updates. Compare crowd density and worst-frame CPU at intended encounter size before adding Jobs/Burst or a new framework.
Verify member loss and replacement, blocked slots, stale alerts, target loss, dense doors, regrouping and simultaneous replans. Trace role/slot owner, alert age, path status and retry count; report measured load and remaining playtest judgments.
Reference: installed AI Navigation documentation. The upstream coordinator scaffold is a design reference, not an installed dependency.
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