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Recast Navigation Gem

The Recast Navigation Gem provides support for building navigation meshes and calculating walkable paths within those navigation meshes. It uses open source library Recast Navigation .

An example of its use can be found in AutomatedTesting project in Navigation Sample level.

This Gem includes the following features:

  • Select an area to build a navigation mesh from PhysX colliders
  • Create a navigation mesh
  • Configure navigation mesh parameters
  • Find paths between entities or positions within a navigation mesh
  • Visualize the navigation mesh

For more information, see Using Recast Navigation Gem.