AutoTarget

Overview

The AutoTargetSystem is used to track focus on a specific target (Entity). This is an essential component for more advanced behavior such as autofire.

AutoTarget features set includes:

• the AutoTargetSystem;
• the IAutoTargetController; and,
• the AutoTarget component.

The AutoTargetSystem handles the updating of the AutoTarget components while the IAutoTargetController is implemented by controller to provide physics query and resolve hits or provide a custom solution to entity selection.

Component

The AutoTargetSystem manipulates and updates all AutoTarget components to achieve:

• Human-like behavior via reaction latency; used mainly by AI agents to make them feel more like analogue players.
• Full control over target query - the default is a physics raycast query based on the agent's Transform3D.

Properties

The AutoTarget component's behaviour can be modified by tweaking the following properties:

• Max Range: visibility distance for physics raycast
• Reaction Time: time needed to set a raycast hit entity as the target or clear the target if the hit entity is lost
• Think Reaction Time: time needed to set a raycast hit entity as the target if there already is a last known target (i.e. switch between targets)
• Target Lost Time: time needed to forget the last known target