To answer the question can Blitz handle LOTR style massive AI system...I think it can if you plan carefully before you begin.
We produced a motorway simulation which had upto 800 cars whose AI was all being looked after using types.
The cars AI had to deal with 4 lanes of traffic and 4 different scenarios, speeding up slowing down in time so as not to have a crash, dealing with the players decisions, dealing with speed and lane restrictions, indicators and brake lights, various individual vehicle parameters such as how many wheels, what speed they were turning etc, etc.
Blitz was able to cope absolutely fine with it's eyes closed and room to draw those vehicles which were in view along with all the other stuff going on around it.
You should really work out every parameter you are ever likely to need and build it into a type and perhaps have types within types even.
Mousey had to re-write the main core of this system 4 times before he had it working to a standard he wanted...what a talented chap!
The result was fabulous! realistically moving and thinking vehicles - hundreds of them!!!!
IPete2.
We produced a motorway simulation which had upto 800 cars whose AI was all being looked after using types.
The cars AI had to deal with 4 lanes of traffic and 4 different scenarios, speeding up slowing down in time so as not to have a crash, dealing with the players decisions, dealing with speed and lane restrictions, indicators and brake lights, various individual vehicle parameters such as how many wheels, what speed they were turning etc, etc.
Blitz was able to cope absolutely fine with it's eyes closed and room to draw those vehicles which were in view along with all the other stuff going on around it.
You should really work out every parameter you are ever likely to need and build it into a type and perhaps have types within types even.
Mousey had to re-write the main core of this system 4 times before he had it working to a standard he wanted...what a talented chap!
The result was fabulous! realistically moving and thinking vehicles - hundreds of them!!!!
IPete2.