Middleware developer BabelFlux has released a new edition of NavPower, its AI pathfinding and movement tool for console and PC, that promises faster runtime performance.
Middleware developer BabelFlux has released a new edition of NavPower, its AI pathfinding and movement tool for console and PC. NavPower has a navmesh auto-generation library and runtime system which the company says stitches hundreds of meshes together automatically for use in large open worlds. The new release, 2.0, promises faster runtime performance through enhanced multi-core and multi-thread support. BabelFlux says that up to 90 percent of the runtime CPU can be offloaded from the game thread. The company also says its SDK is geared to allow developers to integrate NavPower's 2.0's pathfinding tech into game projects "within days," by feeding raw level geometry directly into the build process. "The response to NavPower has been incredible since our launch last year," says NavPower director of marketing Maria Tran. "In the past 12 months, NavPower has been incorporated into over a dozen games including the high-profile releases of Tomb Raider: Underworld and Afro Samurai."
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