One A*, to rule them all

[John.d.h]

I came across some videos of pathfinding that someone else has done with Glest. http://www.youtube.com/user/ciingames

That's pretty cool.  I especially liked the automatic group assignment.  I think it would have to be integrated with some kind of indicator on the minimap for it to be really useful, but I don't know of any other games that do this, so it would maybe be a way to make Glest stand out.

[silnarm]

I had actually seen that some time ago, I did some digging around and discovered it was a university project, unfortunately it was never publicly published (to my knowledge).

Everything is in place now to do these things, generic A*, influence maps, and function objects to build influence maps using the generic A*, it'll largely be a process of 'assembling the pieces'.