AI Training Facility: Enhanced AI

The AI Training Arena with smarter enemies. A new menu row, ENHANCED AI (on unless you turn it off), hands every wave to a squad controller: a trooper has to actually see you before it fights, the first to spot you radios the rest, and instead of all running at you they take positions round you -- one in front, the next two on your flanks -- strafing as they shoot, and they walk round the pillars instead of into them. The pillars are solid now. The controller is a kit with nothing about the level in it, proved in another level too.

The pillars were never solid. A face-collision structure's size is only the broad phase, centred on its origin; p61's 2.0-tall pillars had their origin at mid-height and a 0.27 size, so the sphere never reached a player at the floor and no face was ever tested. The size is now the mesh's own radius, and a real walk stops at the face.

Sensing without FireProjectile: two ghost probes and HasLOS. The spike found the catch: HasLOS starts in the viewer's FILED sector, and a ghost moved by SetThingPos keeps its old one, so its rays see through every wall. Re-filed by TeleportThing first, they are exact, and a ray costs about a tenth of a microsecond here. The kit's enemies drop navigation nodes where they actually stood, linked where a probe says a body fits, in a cog heap rather than as things; they route round obstacles with feelers and the graph; and they share what they see, but by construction a shared route carries places and never the player.

Nothing level-specific: four cogs and copies of LucasArts' own AI classes without their movement instincts, injected unchanged into p44's outpost as well, where they adopted all nine troopers. Retail limits enforced by the generator: JK1 verbs only, no trig, every valued verb assigned, each cog under 300 on the engine's own count. A loose plan for multiplayer bots, after reading rbots (Raynar, Hell Raiser), is in the project's notes. Gate 16 of 16 with six located controls; GOB build 1 boots from dist/; the owner ran the training facility in retail JKDF2 (2026-10-02) and it worked well. Build 3 (2026-10-03, from Battle Tactics 3) makes every AI script rebuild its memory after you die and restart or load a saved game (unguarded, troopers that had seen you never alerted each other again); build 3 has not run in retail yet.

project	p63-enhanced-ai
date	2026-10-02
package	P63.GOB, gobinator.bat, readme.txt, screenshot.jpg
build	3 — 2026-10-03 (first packaged 2026-10-02)
sha256	111a7948a54319e4642e24c2c4b25fdd8818cb355f614ad9f14a5c11d108dbf4

Installing it

P63.GOB is a level. Unzip it and drop the GOB into your episode folder.
Pick it from the episode list.

The GOB carries its own level, cogs, models, materials, and sounds.

These are living projects, not finished releases. A level is rebuilt whenever something is learned — a lighting rule, a texture orientation, a whole detail pass — and it keeps its filename through all of it. The build number is how to tell which one you have: it is printed in the readme inside every zip, and it only moves when the level's bytes actually change.

Screenshots

in engine

The readme that ships with it

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 Jedi Knight Level

 P63.GOB

 The AI Training Arena with smarter enemies. A new menu row, ENHANCED
 AI (on unless you turn it off), hands every wave to a squad
 controller: the troopers have to actually SEE you before they fight,
 the first one to spot you radios the rest, and instead of all running
 at you they take positions around you -- one in front, the next two on
 your flanks -- strafing as they shoot, and they walk round the pillars
 instead of into them. The pillars are solid now, too. Turn ENHANCED AI
 off for the stock behaviour and compare.

 [cogfactory / p63-enhanced-ai]

 BUILD 3  --  2026-10-03   (first packaged 2026-10-02)
 sha256 111a7948a54319e4642e24c2c4b25fdd

 This level is not made or distributed by LucasArts
 Entertainment Co.
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THIS PACKAGE
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  P63.GOB          the level
  readme.txt       this file
  screenshot.jpg   what it looks like

INSTALLATION
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Drop P63.GOB into the `episode` folder of a Jedi Knight install (the one
that already has JK1.GOB in it) and pick it from the episode list.
Nothing else needs to change: the GOB carries its own level, cogs,
models, materials and sounds, and reads the stock resource/ for
everything else.

On a libretro frontend such as RetroArch, unzip first and put P63.GOB in
the episode folder of your Jedi Knight folder, then load it from there.
The core treats the folder above the GOB's folder as the game folder,
reads the episode from episode/P63.GOB inside it, and will not start
unless that folder also holds resource/ (Res2.gob) from a real install.

CONTROLS
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  Up / Down (or W / S): choose a row
  Left / Right (or A / D): change the value; holding repeats
  Space or C: confirm (on START GAME, start the round; on the score screen, back to the menu)
  ENHANCED AI: ON (default) gives the waves the squad controller; OFF is stock Jedi Knight AI
  In the arena: the usual Jedi Knight controls

NOTES
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  ENHANCED AI applies to the waves (stormtroopers, Gran, Rodians,
  commandos, the mixed squad); the Dark Jedi duel as before

  the enemies learn the room as they move: they remember places they
  stood and which of them can see each other, and route through them;
  nothing about the arena is written into them, and the same
  controller runs in other levels

  every screen is a picture: HTML pages captured by a headless browser
  and cut into 16-bit materials

  build 3 (2026-10-03) adds the restore guard the owner asked for
  after p66: when you die and the game puts you back at the level
  start, or you load a saved game, the AI controller, its node memory
  and its steering now rebuild themselves from the level as it is
  (before, they kept what they knew at the moment you died: in the
  outpost the troopers never re-alerted each other). In this build the
  controller's debug lines are on, so you will see EAI RESTORED after
  a restart. Build 2 ran in real JK (the owner, 2026-10-02); build 3
  has NOT run in retail yet

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CREDITS
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  The image menu, the arena and the training rules are p61's
  (tools/cogfactory/projects/p61-image-menu); the Dark Jedi duels are
  p52's; the stormtroopers, Gran, Rodians, commandos and Dark Jedi are
  LucasArts' own templates, and the enhanced AI classes are copies of
  LucasArts' own stdefault/grdefault/rydefault/icdefault with the
  movement instincts taken out; the controller, the menu row and the
  arena changes were generated by tools/cogfactory.

  The readme format is styled after SM Sith Lord's cog headers,
  because his are the ones everybody read.

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