Does A* support volumetric/voxel/6DOF pathfinding?

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Does A* support volumetric/voxel/6DOF pathfinding? I’m not sure if I’m asking the right thing exactly. Something like a spaceship or helicopter navigating a 3d space where in addition to left/right/forward/back, it can also ascend/descend.

Ideally it would also support normal ground-based pathfinding as well, so a game could have a mix of ground-based units as well as air-based units.

I could probably fake air units just with a separate navmesh and having the altitude handled by a script or something, but that seems like it could get messy, having to do separate altitude avoidance etc.

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Hi

Sorry, this is not supported by this package, I’m afraid.

You can create a point graph with a 3D structure. That will work, but you will run into limits pretty quickly, as the number of nodes required for even a medium-sized level will be huge.

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Ok thanks! Maybe that can become a future feature or completely separate product idea someday.