I suggest you implement some Flocking Behavior principles on the movement method. If you don't know about Flocking algorithms, here are some useful links and tutorials:

http://harry.me/blog/2011/02/17/neat-algorithms-flocking/

http://www.lalena.com/AI/Flock/

The trick would be the following:

1- The movement and it's direction each frame will be controlled by a movement vector.

2- The A* pathfinder will return an array of Waypoints the entity needs to go thru so it will end up at the desired location without running into walls and whatnot.

3- This vector is the resulting sum of other vectors, such as Cohesion, Separation and Alignment made by the flocking bevavior, and a vector pointing to the current Waypoint.

This is not a silver bullet, though. The original Flocking theory doesn't account for walls, obstacles and neither pathfinding, and combining Flocking with Pathfinding is not as trivial as it might seem.

I suggest you implement some flocking behavior principles on the movement method. If you don't know about flocking algorithms, here are some useful links and tutorials:

http://harry.me/blog/2011/02/17/neat-algorithms-flocking/

http://www.lalena.com/AI/Flock/

The trick would be the following:

1- The movement and its direction each frame will be controlled by a movement vector.

2- The A* pathfinder will return an array of waypoints the entity needs to go thru so it will end up at the desired location without running into walls and whatnot.

3- This vector is the resulting sum of other vectors generated by the flocking algorithm. The some common vectors are cohesion, separation and alignment along with a vector pointing to the current waypoint (heading).

This is not a silver bullet, though. The original flocking theory doesn't account for walls or obstacles. Neither implementing pathfinding nor combining it with flocking is as trivial as it might seem.

I suggest you implement some Flocking Behavior principles on the movement method. If you don't know about Flocking algorithms, here are some useful links and tutorials:

http://harry.me/2011/02/17/neat-algorithms---flocking/

http://www.lalena.com/AI/Flock/

The trick would be the following:

1- The movement and it's direction each frame will be controlled by a movement vector.

2- The A* pathfinder will return an array of Waypoints the entity needs to go thru so it will end up at the desired location without running into walls and whatnot.

3- This vector is the resulting sum of other vectors, such as Cohesion, Separation and Alignment made by the flocking bevavior, and a vector pointing to the current Waypoint.

This is not a silver bullet, though. The original Flocking theory doesn't account for walls, obstacles and neither pathfinding, and combining Flocking with Pathfinding is not as trivial as it might seem.

I suggest you implement some Flocking Behavior principles on the movement method. If you don't know about Flocking algorithms, here are some useful links and tutorials:

http://harry.me/blog/2011/02/17/neat-algorithms-flocking/

http://www.lalena.com/AI/Flock/

The trick would be the following:

1- The movement and it's direction each frame will be controlled by a movement vector.

2- The A* pathfinder will return an array of Waypoints the entity needs to go thru so it will end up at the desired location without running into walls and whatnot.

3- This vector is the resulting sum of other vectors, such as Cohesion, Separation and Alignment made by the flocking bevavior, and a vector pointing to the current Waypoint.

This is not a silver bullet, though. The original Flocking theory doesn't account for walls, obstacles and neither pathfinding, and combining Flocking with Pathfinding is not as trivial as it might seem.