[Solved] NavMeshAgent behaves like an astroid

Hi,

I have difficulties making a nav mesh agent walk 'reasonable' paths toward its destination.



Instead of taking the shortest path, the agent is kinda like an astroid within a gravitational field, moving in concentric circles towards the target.



Should this be the normal behavior? Or how can i prevent this?

best,
Manuel

 

This seems to be a recurring edge case I've seen a few times, I believe it's a result of the NavMesh' triangulation. Can you perhaps show the NavMesh at that location, are there a ton of extra triangles there?

 

Ok, but is there a way to avoid this?

 

I think people just solved it by messing with the object placement until it stopped messing up. Sorry to not be of more help...

 

I found the following post ( https://answers.unity.com/questions/236828/how-can-i-stop-navmesh-agent-sliding.html )
that suggested to increase the acceleration.

Setting it to 100 in my case solved the issue. The deceleration is than strong enough to keep the agent on 'straight' lines lets say.

I do not understand though, how and where the user can define the object inertia. Is this a physics engine result of the agent having a mesh?

 

That's a surprising solution.
Unless your agent has a rigidbody that's not set to kinematic, the physics engine does not influence your agents at all.
So inertia shouldn't be a factor at all. (Also, the physics engine and navigation system do not play along nicely).

 

While it has already been solved, for future reference, I think this could be what's going on and a pretty good solution provided as well: