Trim down your navmesh with NavMeshModifier and NavMeshModifierVolume

[Cat_Hill]

I made an earlier post here and found a few tools to quickly chop down your navmesh

What tools are helping you craft your terrain / nav mesh more quickly?

EDIT: added instructions for using Nav Mesh Modifiers - a life saver! I ended up installing two packages from the package manager and really liking the improved experience. I recommend folks try it if you’re struggling with getting the terrain to do what you want it to do. The first Is the Terrain Tools Note the install process is a bit different version to version of Unity. There’s a guide here from Unity depending on the version of Unity you’re using. There’s a little drop down where you c…

In short you can create gameobjects that act as modifiers to your NavMesh so that when you bake it, the NavMesh looks like what you expect it to. I used the NavMeshModifierVolume in my post above and just discovered the NavMeshModifiers also exist for flat plane objects like the water Sam had us make. It’s easy to do and you can quickly trim down your game’s rough edges with the NavMeshModifier/Volume

The features in the above post are experimental in versions of unity pre 2022. The good news is 2022.3 just went LTS and I just switched over mid-course so you don’t even need to bother with experimental features anymore.

[Kevin-Brandon]

Very informative posts. Thanks for posting these in the community it really helps out students and push forward insightful conversations.