Waypoint Setup: How?

Create an empty gameobject, name it waypoint, duplicate it, drag it and make it a child of the waypoint. Position them where ever. Ta da. You got your waypoint.

For the code however.. I'd do something like this..

   // speed of the AI player
 public var speed:int = 4;
  
 // speed the ai player rotates by
 public var rotationSpeed:int = 5;
  
 // the waypoints
 public var waypoints:Transform[];
  
 // current waypoint id
 private var waypointId:int = 0;
  
 /**
     Patrol around the waypoints
 */
 function Patrol()
 {
     // if no waypoints have been assigned
     if (waypoints.Length == 0) 
     {
         print("You need to assign some waypoints within the Inspector");
         return;
     }
      
     // if distance to waypoint is less than 2 metres then start heading toward next waypoint
     if (Vector3.Distance(waypoints[waypointId].position, transform.position) < 2)
     {
         // increase waypoint id
         waypointId++;
          
         // make sure new waypointId isn't greater than number of waypoints
         // if it is then set waypointId to 0 to head towards first waypoint again
         if (waypointId >= waypoints.Length) waypointId = 0;
     }
      
     // move towards the current waypointId's position
     MoveTowards(waypoints[waypointId].position);
 }
  
  
 /**
     Update - Every Frame
 */
 function Update()
 {
     // Patrol!
     Patrol();
 }

Now you got your guy going from 1 waypoint to the other..

Do you want the enemy to chase after the player when the player is in range or just stop moving along the path and start shooting? Implementing path following AI is easy. Having enemy AI chase the player intelligently is less so.

Update: The simplest way I've found to make a path following AI requires three parts: an enemy object, a parent path object, and individual path node objects.

The enemy has a public game object that you can assign in the editor to the path object you want it to follow, and a function that moves it towards a given position. In the update function of the enemy have it move toward the position of a node in the list, and upon reaching it have it move to the next node.

The parent path object needs a public list that will contain all nodes in the path and a function that sorts the list based on an int inside of the node class.

The node object needs a public int (as mentioned above) that determines its order in the path. It also needs a function that adds it to the parent object's list of nodes to be called on start.

I realize that's a complicated explanation. I'm tempted to just make a sample project and upload it. I dunno, let me know how it goes.

If it says: "Assets/Scripts/Waypoints.js(38,5): BCE0005: Unknown identifier: 'MoveTowards'."

add this to your script

 function MoveTowards (position : Vector3) {
     var direction = position - transform.position;
     direction.y = 0;
     if (direction.magnitude < 0.5) {
         SendMessage("SetSpeed", 0.0);
         return;
 }
 
 }
 hope it works :)

function MoveTowards (position : Vector3) { var direction = position - transform.position; direction.y = 0; if (direction.magnitude < 0.5) { SendMessage("SetSpeed", 0.0); return; }

} hope it works :)