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Building NavMeshes in separate thread?

Discussion in 'AI & Navigation Previews' started by kulesz, Aug 22, 2017.

  1. kulesz

    kulesz

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    Does the new NavMeshSurface ("Components for Runtime NavMesh Building") supports asynchronous NavMesh building, or everyting must be created in Unity thread?
    Is it possible to fire BuildNavMesh as async task and do not stall main thread?
     
  2. AshyB

    AshyB

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    Did you ever find out if there is an async operation? I know theres UpdateNavMesh() but that only works after the navmesh has already been built...

    Also appears you can't use static batching gameobjects with navmeshsurface...?
     
  3. MadeFromPolygons

    MadeFromPolygons

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  4. laurentlavigne

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    Navmesh build is async by default but needs to be called from the main thread.
     
  5. AshyB

    AshyB

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    Ah think I figured it out.

    Just startcoroutine and pass the navmeshsurface to the coroutine.

    Code (csharp):
    1.  
    2.         // called by startcoroutine whenever you want to build the navmesh
    3.         IEnumerator BuildNavmesh(NavMeshSurface surface)
    4.         {
    5.             // get the data for the surface
    6.             var data = InitializeBakeData(surface);
    7.  
    8.             // start building the navmesh
    9.             var async = surface.UpdateNavMesh(data);
    10.  
    11.             // wait until the navmesh has finished baking
    12.             yield return async;
    13.  
    14.             Debug.Log("finished");
    15.  
    16.             // you need to save the baked data back into the surface
    17.             surface.navMeshData = data;
    18.  
    19.             // call AddData() to finalize it
    20.             surface.AddData();
    21.         }
    22.  
    23.         // creates the navmesh data
    24.         static NavMeshData InitializeBakeData(NavMeshSurface surface)
    25.         {
    26.             var emptySources = new List<NavMeshBuildSource>();
    27.             var emptyBounds = new Bounds();
    28.  
    29.             return UnityEngine.AI.NavMeshBuilder.BuildNavMeshData(surface.GetBuildSettings(), emptySources, emptyBounds, surface.transform.position, surface.transform.rotation);
    30.         }
    31.  
     
  6. MadeFromPolygons

    MadeFromPolygons

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    No, coroutines are not seperate threads. They are run on the main thread.
     
  7. qazi_friendstech

    qazi_friendstech

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    Running a wrapper in parallel makes no sense unless BuildNaVmeshData runs in parallel
    BTW :- Coroutines and Async run on main thread
     
  8. tumanoidb

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    you better add
    surface.RemoveData();

    if you need multiple rebuild navmesh