The Discovery of the Perfect NavMesh

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GDC 2025
Speaker: Ben Sunshine-Hill
Company: Havok
Format: Programming

Is there even such a thing as a "perfect" nav mesh? What would be the point of having one? And why is your AI so bad at navigating on cave walls and rope bridges? In this session, Ben Sunshine-Hill pulls back the curtain on more than a decade of evolution in AAA navigation systems, describes the hidden link between navigation and physics, and shows how off-the-shelf geometry processing libraries can be used to generate navigation data you can actually rely on.