Procedural sphere pathfindin

Beginner Questions
1

Hi !

I’m currently trying to create a kind of planet, where some units could walk on. For now I tried the Point Graph method, so I placed nodes etc. But now, first I don’t see any links (blue line) between them, and I’m wondering if adding nodes at run time updates the graph.

Any ideas / suggestions (on configs) ?

Thank you

2

Hi

If you are adding new GameObjects to the point graph during runtime you need to recalculate the graph to take those into account. You can recalculate the graph using

AstarPath.active.Scan();
3

Yes thank you, I was about to edit my post to say that I spotted that. Working well.
Now I’m trying to figure out if I must change the Max Distance, should it be the distance between two nodes or the max distance a path can be ? :-/

4

Hi

The distance between two nodes.

5

Is it something bad to have a value bigger than actual possible distance between 2 nodes ?
I mean if I put 10 but the max distance between two of my nodes is 2, is there any useless stuff performed ?

6

Yes, it will perform a lot of redundant raycasts when scanning the graph. It has no impact after the graph has been scanned however.