[SOLVED] UpdateNavMeshDataAsync is taking too much time per frame

Hi there,

using UpdateNavMeshDataAsync is not useable for me, as it takes far too much time per frame (game stutters when I call it). It would be great if we could set an amount of milliseconds per frame to prevent this.

I am not even changing the nav mesh itself, I am just changing a small amount of navmesh area settings, e.g. an fire destroyed a forest and now this area has cheaper walking costs.

Any chance of adding this in the future @Jakob_Unity or am I doing anything wrong?

 

Experiencing the same issue: https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/bad-fps-spikes-with-navmesh-building-at-runtime.487905/

Can we please get some insight on this?

 

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Check my linked post. I was able to reduce the ms per frame to a very small amount by overriding the navmesh settings.

 

Thanks I have played around with this setting already, but it doesn't help. I have to set the voxel size to 0.08 for my navmesh to make it work, otherwise navagent would be "floating" and not be on the ground. I don't use a normal terrain but tiles which I create in magica voxel. Some of those tiles have lot's of "steps" which need a decent voxel resolution to generate the navmesh. I would understand if this takes some time in generating.

The problem I have is that I want only change the cost for certain areas on the fly. As I have a burning forest which should be avoided for the time it's burning. It seems that the navmesh updates everything not only the costs, otherwise this sould be really fast imho.

 

I have been scanning the improvement notes of the latest beta 2017.2b10 and found this:

AI: Improved performance when synchronizing NavMesh tiles after carving.

Installed it and it actually fixed my problem! Thanks so much @Unity!