Intelligent navigation
Our reactive navigation system means your characters will never get lost or stuck. Every frame, routes are reconsidered and optimized.
Our dynamic cutting system reacts to obstacles, adjusting navigation data in real time to ensure its routes are dependable and up to date, with a far lower computational cost than regenerating from scratch.
Get around in style
Yesterday’s characters ran. Today’s characters jump, vault, climb, drop, and roll. Our pioneering traversal analysis system finds opportunities for stylish and useful traversals, customized for your character capabilities.
Or take to the air! Our volume navigation and steering systems support any 3D use case, from schools of fish to armies of spaceships.
Giant worlds, fast
Our multithreaded and tightly optimized nav mesh generator rebuilds large areas in mere seconds.
Our streaming and stitching system can adapt to worlds of any size, and our hierarchical clustering enables lightning-fast pathfinding over huge, complex environments.
Optional async support spreads processing over frames to guarantee a maximum per-frame processing time.
Visualization and debugging
The Havok Visual Debugger allows real-time visualization of Navigation objects and data and allows you to record and analyze gameplay traces.
Profile memory and processor usage.
Recordings can be used by Havok Support to replay and reproduce problematic situations.
Key Features
Content creation
- Fast and precise nav mesh and nav volume generation
- Traversal analysis for jumps, vaults, climbs, drops, and other non-walking traversal types
- Region analysis to prune unneeded areas from the data
- Fully customizable use of level data to control the generation process
Predictive collision avoidance
- Best-in-market collision avoidance system analyzes hundreds of trajectories per character per frame to find collision-free solutions
- Tuned to generate realistic human avoidance motion while quickly clearing bottlenecks
- 3D volume steering behaviors for flying and swimming characters
Pathfinding and navigation
- Cluster-based heuristics to accelerate pathfinds
- Dynamic navigation adapts to characters leaving their paths, and to changes in the world
- Asynchronous processing guarantees maximum per-frame computation time
Streaming and Instancing
- Break nav data into local areas, loaded and stitched at runtime
- Instancing system allows multiple copies of nav data to be used simultaneously and vary independently, while minimizing memory usage
- Cluster graphs for approximate pathfinding even through unloaded areas of the world
Havok Navigation-powered
A selection of games powered by Havok Navigation
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
Borderlands 3
Doom Eternal
Elden Ring
FINAL FANTASY XVI
Ā© SQUARE ENIX
Gears 5
Generation Zero
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
Ā© 2022 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Rabbids, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are registered or unregistered trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Nintendo properties are licensed to Ubisoft Entertainment by Nintendo. SUPER MARIO characters Ā© Nintendo.ćTrademarks are property of their respective owners. Nintendo Switch is a trademark of Nintendo.
PokƩmon LEGENDS: Arceus
Ā©2022 PokĆ©mon. Ā©1995-2022 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.
PokƩmon Scarlet
Ā©2022 PokĆ©mon. Ā©1995-2022 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.
PokƩmon Violet
Ā©2022 PokĆ©mon. Ā©1995-2022 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.
Rage 2
Splatoon 3
Ā© Nintendo
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Ā© Nintendo
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Ā© Nintendo
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
World War Z
WWE 2K24
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