Ch 12 - Navigation & Pathfinding - Option C [TEST]

1. Overview

In this chapter, you will learn about Navigation and Pathfinding. By the end of this chapter, you will build a scene that looks similar to the one below, where an enemy follows the player around the room, but avoids static and moving obstacles.

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2. Before you begin

1. Open the Associate Game Dev project:

• Make sure to have the Associate Game Dev Unity project open and ready to go
  

2. Open the Build scene for this chapter:

• In the Project window, go to 12 - Navigation and Pathfinding > Scenes, then open the 12-Navigation_And_Pathfinding-Build scene.

3. Describing a NavMesh

Watch the video

Now you try

1. Open the scene:

2. Mark all objects you want included in the mesh as static.

3. Open the Navigation window:

4. Bake the NavMesh.

Reference the documentation:

If you need help or want to learn more about this step, you can reference the following documentation:

• Navigation system in Unity

• Building a NavMesh

4. Defining a NavMesh Agent

Watch the video

Now you try

1. Add a NavMesh component to the enemy.

2. Create and assign the new navigation script

3. Assign the player as the target

4. Test the game.

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Reference the documentation:

If you need help or want to learn more about this step, you can reference the following documentation:

• Creating a NavMesh Agent

5. Describing a NavMesh Obstacle

Watch the video

Now you try

1. Add a moving obstacle to the scene

2. Make it a Nav Mesh Obstacle

3. Test the game.

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Reference the documentation:

If you need help or want to learn more about this step, you can reference the following documentation:

• Creating a NavMesh Obstacle

6. Review

Watch the video

7. More things to try

If you want to further develop your skills, explore new concepts, or improve your project, check out the optional activity below.

This activity is entirely optional, so if you’re not interested, no problem — just skip this step.

Create a ramp the enemy can go up

Use the Max Slope property to allow enemies to walk up some ramps, but not others.

8. Next steps

Before you move on, you may want to browse some of the relevant documentation.

• Navigation system in Unity

• Building a NavMesh

• Creating a NavMesh Obstacle