Havok Navigation

Havok Navigation provides customizable pathfinding to populate your game world efficiently. The system supports both ground and 3D volumetric navigation, allowing characters to navigate in three dimensions, including running, walking, swimming, and flying. Our collision avoidance system supports large crowds avoiding moving obstacles and characters, creating emergent effects like lane formations and swirling.

Generate fast, high-quality navigation meshes using custom rational arithmetic-based number representation for watertight alignment with level boundaries. You can customize navigable worlds with traversal edges and mark individual faces with custom materials to modify character behavior. The system supports large nav meshes and hierarchical pathfinding, allowing for accelerated navigation through unloaded sections of the map.

Respond quickly and effectively to dynamically changing environments. Havok Navigation allows you to load and unload sections of the nav mesh at runtime, using silhouette cutting to remove inaccessible areas and dynamically adjusting based on player-controlled events. You can create one-way doors by adjusting the cost and traversability of individual nav mesh faces and edges.

Havok Navigation includes time-saving functionality such as traversal analysis, which automatically connects nav mesh faces based on character-specific traversal movement sets, eliminating the need to define each link manually. Default traversal options are fully customizable to meet your character needs and abilities. Additionally, Havok Navigation’s cross-platform deterministic algorithms ensure identical nav meshes and volumes across different hardware.