Navigation: Exiting game while async nav building tasks are running can cause null pointer access of OctreeController.NavOctree from worker thread

UE - AI - Navigation - Jan 14, 2025

Context Projects can turn on the project setting bDoFullyAsyncNavDataGathering to execute navigation mesh building tasks on worker threads. Some of these tasks will access the NavOctree, whose life ...

Regression - Nav mesh is not generated on BSP brushes after loading a map

UE - AI - Navigation - Jan 14, 2025

In UE 5.5, when loading a map and selecting "Build – Build Paths", the nav mesh is not generated on any BSP brushes (although it is correctly generated in static meshes). This did not happen in earl ...

Recast: FindDistanceToWall can return incorrect results on shared edges with Excluded Nav Area

UE - AI - Navigation - Jan 10, 2025

Context ARecastNavMesh::FindDistanceToWall can be used to find the closest 'wall' on a nav mesh, given a queried position. A wall can be:any boundary towards the end of the nav mesh (outer rectangl ...

Editor FPS has significant drop when moving a BSP brush in level with multiple BSPs

UE - AI - Navigation - Jan 8, 2025

Editor performance plummets when moving BSP brushes in a level with several other BSP brushes present. Navmesh regeneration is the main cause as the full bounds for all BSP are used to determine whi ...

Regression - Nav mesh is not generated on BSP brushes after loading a map

UE - AI - Navigation - Dec 18, 2024

In UE 5.5, when loading a map and selecting "Build – Build Paths", the nav mesh is not generated on any BSP brushes (although it is correctly generated in static meshes). This did not happen in earl ...

CharacterMovementComponent: NavWalking with high value for NavWalkingFloorDistTolerance can causes character meshes to be teleported up/down when crouching/uncrouching

UE - AI - Navigation - Nov 27, 2024

Context CharacterMovementComponent can be set in the NavWalking mode so that on the server the characters move using the navigation mesh as floor. This helps performance when the nav mesh is more c ...

After changing SupportedAgent settings, old Recast nav mesh actor is not deleted when saving map with External Actors (OFPA) enabled

UE - AI - Navigation - Nov 8, 2024

Context Recast lets you configure multiple agent types in Project Settings > Navigation System > Supported Agents. When agents have unique settings such as agent radius, building a nav mesh results ...

Recast rcScopedDelete<T>::resizeGrow copies too many elements

UE - AI - Navigation - Nov 5, 2024

Context The Recast module has a helper struct rcScopedDelete for allocating, resizing and automatically freeing the allocated memory when the struct goes out of scope. Its allocation functions can ...

Navigation: Exiting game while async nav building tasks are running can cause null pointer access of OctreeController.NavOctree from worker thread

UE - AI - Navigation - Nov 1, 2024

Context Projects can turn on the project setting bDoFullyAsyncNavDataGathering to execute navigation mesh building tasks on worker threads. Some of these tasks will access the NavOctree, whose life ...

Incorrect display of NavLinks when bFailedNavLinks is enabled

UE - AI - Navigation - Oct 10, 2024

When bFailedNavLinkNavLink is enabled in RecastNavmesh, some NavLink points are debugged and others are not depending on the position of the NavLink point. In the sample project, enable bFailedNavL ...