How Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Solved Pathfinding | War Stories | Ars Technica
Ars Technica2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2020–2026
interview · general · evergreen · 2020–2026 on HN
Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle talks about how pathfinding was solved in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, in an Ars Technica War Stories episode. It also touches on other challenges in Westwood's RTS games.
HN commenters recommend it as an accessible, non-technical look at real game pathfinding problems from a developer who built them.
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4 comments from Hacker News
You're probably looking for something more detailed and implementation-focused, but Ars Technica had a series of 10 minute videos where they interviewed developers about technical challenges. E.g. they had one on pathfinding and CD video in second generation Westwood RTS games [1] [1] ▶ this video
With regard to pathfinding, there is this great video on some of their challenges at the time [1]. 1. ▶ this video
see also: "How Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Solved Pathfinding" (2019, non-technical, for a general audience) ▶ this video
Tangentially related, sometimes making a bot do mistakes is harder than making a correct bot.See Command and Conquer's pathfinding anecdote: ▶ this video