CSE362/CSE5058 Artificial Intelligence Project 1

Prerequisites

Before you can start working on this assignment you will need to install C#, Unity Hub and required Unity Editor version.

    1. Install C# if it’s not already installed

Choose only a or b.

        a. Installing through Visual Studio

            ▪ Download Visual Studio Community: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

            ▪ From Visual Studio Installer choose Game development with Unity option for minimal installation. With this option you don’t need to download Unity Hub.

        b. Installing without Visual Studio

            ▪ Download .NET SDK and install: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download

            ▪ If you are going to use VS Code as your script editor, don’t forget to install C# extension.

    2. Install Unity Hub if it’s not already installed (If you installed C# through option a, you don’t need to do this step): https://unity.com/download

        a. You do not need to install recommended Unity Editor. When prompted, skip the editor installation process.

    3. Install Unity Editor 2020.3.5f1: https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download/archive

        a. From the link click the section named Unity 2020.x

        b. Find Unity 2020.3.5f1 and install through Unity Hub button

            ▪ From the pop up you don’t need to check anything. Press Install.

    4. Open project from Unity Hub

        a. Extract the project zip you are given.

        b. From the Projects section in Unity Hub click Open button and choose Pacmann folder inside PacmanHomeWork-main folder. If you need to choose which editor to open with, select 2020.3.5f1.

    5. If you need to choose an external script editor, click Edit > Preferences and choose your script editor.

    6. From the file structure at the bottom left, open Assets and click to Scenes. From those four scenes double click to PacmanLevel.unity. You can move around with right click + wasd

    7. Click to Scripts from the same file structure and open PathFinding.cs file. Inside this file, you will see a method with AStarAlgorithm name. You will write your code under this method.
Project Definition

In this project, you are required to implement the A* path finding algorithm. Figure 1 illustrates the working state of the Pacman project.


































To-Do

You are given a working Pacman project with path finding method excluded. In this assignment you will need to implement A* algorithm and write your implementation inside a method given to you with method signature:

void AStarAlgorithm(Node startNode, Node goalNode)

Modify the PathFinding.cs script file to meet the requirements described above. To understand methods and classes you might use, you can explore Node.cs and Gridd.cs files. PathFinding script file is located under Assets -> Scripts folder. Create a PDF report describing A* and your effort in this assignment. Furthermore, test your application and include your findings in your report.



To-Submit

Only submit the PathFinding.cs file and your report in PDF format. Do not upload the entire project folder. Submitted file should be an archive (tar, zip, rar, etc.) named as your id-name-surname (e.g. 202051056016-berk-ercin.zip). Submit your own work.