AI Manager

Constructs AI manager. During construction, AI manager spawns worker threads, whose number is determined by a constructor argument. Those threads work on updating reasoners of registered entities. If the user passes 0 as the constructor argument, all updates will be executed on the main thread.

Creates a shared blackboard identified by the given name.

Registers an entity with a given priority. After registration, AI Manager will be able to update the entity’s state. Entities with lower priority values are be updated first.

Queues an entity to be unregistered from the manager. All queued entities are removed by the end of the next update.

Manager registers entity group (and its entities) with given priority. As a result entities and their behaviors will be updated when UpdateEntities will be called. Entities with lower priority will be updated first. Resulting priority of each entity in group is calculated by adding group priority and relative priority of given entity.

Manager removes entity group and caches its entities for removal. Later on all cached entities will be unregistered from this manager. Unregistered entities will no longer be updated, neither will be their behaviors and reasoners.

Subscribes the given entity to a shared blackboard owned by this manager and identified by a name.

Updates all registered entities. More specifically, this methods causes updates of behaviors assigned to those entities.

Allows worker threads (or main thread, depending on configuration) to update reasoners connected to registered entities. Basically, calling this method allows entities to think.

Registers entity change observer that will be notified via OnEntityAdded and OnEntityRemoved functions when entity os added or removed from manager.

Removes entity change observer so it no longer be notified on adding or removing entity from manager.

Checks if given entity is registered in manager. Returns true if entity is registered in manager, false otherwise.