Havok AI™
Efficient Pathfinding for Dynamic Game Environments
Havok AI is a new platform-optimized SDK focused on efficient pathfinding and path following. Havok AI is built from the ground up to consider dynamically changing environments. Leveraging our experience with Havok Physics™, we’ve created a solution that allows efficient pathfinding in situations that present a huge challenge for static or augmented solutions.
Available now, Havok AI meets the pathfinding challenge with its new platform-optimized SDK that features
- A robust and fast automatic nav mesh generator that creates clean and optimized navigation meshes for typical game levels in seconds. It allows designers to easily control the output by specifying exactly what should be included as part of the generation input.
- A range of optimized runtime queries allow NPCs to efficiently make decisions about their environment, including:
- Single and multiple goal pathfinding and path smoothing
- Nearest feature queries e.g. find the closest navigation mesh border to gather potential cover locations.
- Fast line-of-sight checking
- Spatial queries for finding the closest point / face on navigation mesh and navigation mesh ray casting.
- A navigation mesh streaming solution that allows you to create independent navigation meshes for each section of your world and dynamically stitch them together at runtime as required.
- Havok AI offers an out-of-the-box path following module that controls the motion of individual characters even in highly congested crowd scenes. Characters predict the motion of others in their vicinity and react accordingly exhibiting natural queuing and flowing.
- Havok AI can be used standalone but it also ships with integration code that connects it with Havok Physics, Havok Animation™, and Havok Destruction™.
As with all Havok products and tools, Havok AI is fully multithreaded and cross-platform optimized.
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Havok AI Brief