Introduction to basic path finding and statemachine AI?

i am trying to learn about basic AI and here look I made an example of some semi procedural gen with what id hope is real time building of path finding nodes

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but im super dumb when it comes to AI and pathfinding i cant wrap my brain around this stuff...... :o

meh maybe its best to give it up
how did every1 here begin the journey of learning about video game AI and pathing.. any tips or tricks?

When I tried to create a custom path finding engine a couple years ago I follow this tutorial to understand the concept.

http://www.policyalmanac.org/games/aStarTutorial.htm

You can look at my A* path finding YouTube video in the signature of my post. I would suggest looking up Sketchy's path finding tutorial on The Daily Click.

thanks ill check it all out and see if i can understand :o

welp, was nice while it lasted, im gonna go bak to enjoying games not making them lol :o

Pathfinding just happens to be one of the harder things to do, especially using methods like the A* pathfinding method over easier, but not as accurate methods. I'd recommend not giving up on making games so easily, unless that's not the only reason you have for stopping.