Pathfinding away from the player

Haider

I've been learning pathfinding recently and was able to set up pathfinding towards specific points -- including the player, and it's been quite useful. However, despite the abundance of tutorials detailing the process of pathfinding towards the player, I've been unable to find any tutorials on pathfinding away from the player. Wanted to make my enemy run away from the player and navigate around obstacles while doing so -- how would I go about this?

duane

It's really the same problem, with the same solution. The last time I did this, was for a closed environment (a dungeon), so I just picked an adjacent room as the target, preferring rooms away from the player's direction. In an open environment, I'd just pick a spot away from the player and path to that, possibly checking every so often for a new target.