How can I detect the direction a link is being travelled?

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  • A* version: 5.3.3
  • Unity version: 2022.3.52f1

I need to do my own postprocessing on a path and would like as much info about the links as possible. I’m able to find a refernce to the links, but besides the position I haven’t found an obvious way to get the direction that a TwoWay directional NodeLink2 is being travelled. I could do an approximate position comparison, but it feels like there should be a way to just get it out of the LinkNode object.

In the path’s GraphNodes list, I can see 2 entries for each Link, which is in the order of the calculated path. From inside there I can figure out a link to the GameObject and/or NodeLink2 that was used. But I’d like to find out reliably whether the first encountered point (e.g. GameObject or Transform) is the start or the end of the link.
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Hi

I would recommend using

var parts = Funnel.SplitIntoParts(path);

foreach (var part in parts) {
    if (part.type = PartType.OffMeshLink) {
        var linkNode = path.path[part.startIndex] as LinkNode;
        var tracer = linkNode.linkConcrete.GetTracer(linkNode);
        Debug.Log(tracer.isReverse);
    }
}
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