iv4xr-project/aplib

Tactical BDI Agent Framework for Java

aplib's Issues

class W3DEnvironment

This class seems like class that has basic prepared functionality for environments in 3D world.
It provides methods like:

• observe
• interact
• moveToward
• loadWorld

Are these supposed to be used by any client extending this class?
They are not very generic and don't really match our use-case. We basically have our own implementations for all of this.

• Method observe can work.
• Method loadWorld could, be we need id of the world (scenario to load). Either as method parameter or a variable in the class.
• Method moveToward could work, not sure in this, as I don't understand framework enough.¨
• Method interact is hard to use for us.

If these are really supposed to be generic, interface should be more generic and nicer. I imagine, that with some nice and generic methods, some goals and tactics could be implemented as part of aplib itself and then can work on any environment automatically (like some basic movements, actions). Is that the idea? If so, we can try to match the interface if possible.

Method sendCommand_ suggests we use some kind of protocol with EnvOperation variable to communicate with the game.
I see it as problem for another layer and this class is not really supposed to know about implementation of communication to this detail.
In our case for example, we communicate very differently and we just kept this method empty.