Edit auto-generated offmeshlinks for Jumping Up?

Hi all, I've been banging my head against this for a while.

Baking the navmesh allows for auto-generated offmeshlinks for jumping across gaps or dropping down. But for whatever reason, having the drop-down links go both ways - to allow agents to jump back up - isn't allowed by default, even though the gap-jumping ones are automatically bi-directional.

It seems strange that this functionality would just be missing. I've seen answers saying that you just have to place offmeshlinks by hand, but this is hugely impractical when the engine seems capable of doing it already. Is there really no way to have the auto-generated ones go both directions? An editor extension maybe?

Thank you for any help!

 

Hi, I'm alsol struggling with this problem. Did you ever find a solution?

 

You might have to manually create a link and uncheck bi-directional.

 

or set agent.autoTraverseOffMeshLink = false
You handle the animation from the startPos to endPos. Don't allow animation from endPos to StartPos.

 

Thanks for replying but how does that fix the problem? The auto generated offmesh links are for jumping down only, we need them to be bidirectional so our agents can also jump up on the same links.

Is it possible to force an agent to use offmesh links in reverse direction?

 

oh, I thought you wanted oneway.

You can check agent.isOnOffMeshLink and then trigger an animation to jump up.
You can get the startPos with agent.currentOffMeshLinkData.startPos

 

And how does that fix my problem with the offmeshlinks not allowing me to jump up?

I dont want to create all mesh links manually, I want to either:

1- Figure out how to have all auto generated off mesh link be bidirectional

OR

2- Figure out how to use a SINGLE direction off mesh link in reverse.

OR

3- Find another tool to generate off mesh links for the unity navemesh.

 

Still struggled on this question, are there any good solutions?

 

Do you have found an easy solution?

 

@IndieFist Nope still nothing, I've been looking into A* pathfinding pro's documentation which mentions off mesh links but isn't clear about how to create and use them. I need to ask the dev.

Looking at mistergreen2016's previous answers we may be able to do it with the Unity NavMesh using "agent.isOnOffMeshLink" to initiate some verification, if closer to startPos or endPos (get them from agent.currentOffMeshLinkData) we know if we should go up or down then check the obstacle's height to run the proper behavior (anim + code).

But this is all guessing, I'm going to work on this in the coming weeks.

 

Yes, right now im using this system, check if agent is closest to endPos or StarPos and do whatever...
Right now i have other problem, agent does not update my transform rotation in hard surfaces like a wall with two sides where can walk.