A* and Unity

This week I had my beta review with Joe and Professor Badler. The review was extremely helpful in confirming my approach thus far and in generating ideas for how to get past some of the road blocks I am facing. Another point of feedback was to post to my blog more frequently -- even if I do not have a result to show, it's important to share and discuss the problems I am trying to work through.

At my beta review, I showed my progress since the alpha review:
- A* pathfinding implemented in C++. I am more familiar with C++ than C#, so I wanted to focus on implementing the logic of the algorithm rather than struggling with syntax.
- Graph creation in Unity. I needed a graph representation of the nodes and their neighbors in Unity before I could implement pathfinding. Each node has 8 neighbors (since my map is a square grid). I spent a lot of time here reading more about Unity and C#.
- A* pathfinding in Unity. I can specify start and end nodes and the code will generate the correct path. I am still trying to understand how Unity's physics engine syntax works, so I am still working to have my agent respond correctly to the paths generated. This will be my major task for the week.

I plan to have my behavior tree dynamically recalculate weights on the graph to influence the paths generated by the A* algorithm. Because I will be making constant calls to A*, I want to go over my code again and try to make it as efficient as possible.