What should I work on?

[urm]

Hello everyone!
I'm considering contributing to the project, and one thing that I'd really like to work on is AI. Would developing a more advanced AI (compared to vanilla/current OpenMW) something desirable, or is that just a post-1.0 plan? Or should I just stick to fixing glaring issues like https://bugs.openmw.org/issues/3855 ?

I think the former is more reasonable, as original's AI is pretty terrible to begin with, but also hard (or rather impossible) to copy in an exact way anyway, but would like to get some advice on this.

[akortunov]

Hello, urm!

Welcome to OpenMW forum. You can look at list of AI issues here. As you can see, the main problem is pathfinding AI. You can try to improve it, if you wish.

[urm]

I was thinking more about combat AI. Pathfinding is already better than it was in original, and rather satisfactory for my taste.

[akortunov]

I was thinking more about combat AI

In this case you can try to improve spellcasting by combat AI (aicombataction.cpp). There are some issues with spells priority. I already started to work on these issues and have some ideas.

I will create a separate forum thread with list of these issues.

[urm]

Yes, I saw your comments in that bug report
If you want we could try to work some kind of mechanic together

[lysol]

This will be interesting!

[urm]

A simple bandaid for now could be only allowing npc to cast defensive spells that mirror their opponent's current weapon (so as a reactive spell)

[akortunov]

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