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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 includes Detour, which provides pathfinding capabilities and DetourCrowd, which provides crowd simulation capabilities. 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
  • Manage crowds of agents with collision avoidance and steering behaviors
  • Visualize the navigation mesh

For more information, see Using Recast Navigation Gem.