Navigate complex environments
Get a clear understanding of how your characters move in highly dynamic environments with this powerful design tool.
Crawl, walk, run, fly
Enable complex reasoning about future character action with a rich query interface, including traversal analysis on nav meshes and nav volumes.
Interoperates with existing systems
Havok AI is designed to work with your lower-level character locomotion system—including our fast, robust new mesh generation system that integrates seamlessly with existing game pipelines.
Technical details
Full-featured pathfinding solution
- Highly multithreaded runtime supports large-scale worlds with thousands of characters
- Built from the ground up to react in real time for dynamically changing environments
- Tracks characters throughout navigation and adaptively re-optimizes their trajectories for each frame
- Offers exact wall-clock time slicing to adapt to any processing time budget
- Configurable character capabilities and filtering to fit any character type
- Runtime clearance calculation allows characters of any radius to use a single navigation mesh, or radius can be baked in during mesh generation for optimized runtime performance
High-speed automatic navigation mesh generation
- Highly optimized, fully multithreaded generator creates navigation meshes for game levels in seconds
- Exact rational arithmetic kernel produces clean, robust results from arbitrarily complex geometry—without compromising performance
- Easily integrated into existing tool chains while designed to understand and work with your level data
- Fully customizable to support an unlimited variety of navigation use cases
- Automatic markup of jumping, vaulting, and climbing opportunities
- Separate generator for 3D navigation data supports swimming and flying characters
Streaming and instancing
- Efficiently streams areas in and out of the simulation to support unbounded world sizes
- Hierarchical pathfinding allows approximate paths even through unloaded world areas
- Low-cost instancing of navigation data supports both independent world shards and adaptive level tiles
Character steering and collision avoidance
- High-quality collision avoidance reacts to complex situations with intelligent, human-like steering
- Supports squads and formations, keeping characters organized while keeping them flexible
- Designed to work with complex, animation-driven character controllers
Havok AI-powered
A selection of games powered by Havok AI
Borderlands 3
Doom Eternal
Gears 5
Generation Zero
Rage 2
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
© 2017 Nintendo
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
World War Z
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