NavMeshLink in Unity - Adding Jumping to NavMeshAgents | AI Series Part 2

In this tutorial I go over what a NavMeshLink is, how to add it to your NavMesh, and how to make your NavMeshAgents look a little nicer when traversing a NavMeshLink. The NavMeshLink is how you can make your AI jump between two navmeshes, jump over an obstacle, or even jump up onto a platform.

NavMeshLink is the Unity Navigation Component from the NavMesh Components Github Repo. In AI Series Part 1: https://youtu.be/aHFSDcEQuzQ I went over how to get that into your project. This allows us to add links between NavMesh areas that have already been baked. This is super helpful when you want to connect disjoint NavMesh areas! NavMeshAgents can jump, slide, teleport, or, you can even define custom behaviors for traversing these! They're a really powerful tool to make your NavMeshAgents cross between baked NavMeshes.

NavMeshLink is the higher level component that correlates to the built-in navigation system's OffMeshLink. The Navigation system understands an OffMeshLink, but in the editor you'll add NavMeshLinks to define where those OffMeshLinks should be added.

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📚 Resources

In the future episodes of the AI Series I discuss how to:

🟠 Connect Additively Loaded Scenes with Pre-Baked NavMeshes: https://youtu.be/ygr5YyTRsBY

🟠 Customize NavMeshLink Traversal Type per Area Type: https://youtu.be/PD6VFD1a21g

Both of which are slightly more advanced than this introductory level tutorial.

As usual with the AI Series, we're using the NavMesh Components: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/NavMesh-BuildingComponents.html not the built-in navigation system.

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