Plan for Stefan Beffy Moises

Whee, finally navmesh generation for scaled interiors is working, too! :)

Remember how they've looked like in one of my last .plans?

I was trying to scale the objBox before placing nodes, but ran into some issues with rayCast collisions crashing the engine then etc.
So what I am doing now is I just moved the scaling to a later part of the process, right after the rayscans, before I am transforming the points in worldspace:

if(!interior->castRay(start, end, &ri))
   {
      PROFILE_END();
      return;
   }

   Point3F worldPoint = ri.point;

   // beffy: fix for scaled interiors
   VectorF scale = interior->getScale();
   worldPoint.convolve(scale);

   interior->getTransform().mulP(worldPoint);

easy as that! ;)

Another thing I've been tossin in lately is path smoothing/straightening which is based on an article in Game Programming Gems 1.
The idea behind is pretty simple: walk through all your path nodes, checking for line-of-sight (LOS) between them, so say you have 3 points A,B and C - if you can "see" from A to C (without colliding with anything), you can skip point B and walk straight from A to C.
Here are some pics:

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

It's maybe not that clear to see, but e.g. the second path has around 20 nodes "after" compared to about approx. 120 nodes "before", which makes the movement a lot smoother and straighter...

Next on my plate are dynamic collision avoidance probably using Phil's sensors and further navgraph generation optimization...