Welcome to PathEngine, home of the most advanced pathfinding library commercially available.
Go beyond nav-meshes with robust integrated dynamic obstacle management.
PathEngine's sophisticated points-of-visibility core means:
- A powerful and well-defined motion space description (essentially: augmented navigation meshes for ground management + static and dynamic obstacle detail + automatic expansion by pathfinding agent shape).
- Paired pathfinding and collision, for efficient and effective reactive behaviours and fundamentally robust movement planning.
- Fast pathfinding over long distances, with no aliasing.
Commercial clients are invited to
request an evaluation.
Full support will be provided during your evaluation.
Students and hobbyists are invited to try out the 'testbed-only' version of the SDK,
which can be found on the downloads page.
Source code for the demo is also provided.
This is a great way, then, to get started learning about implementing intelligent agent movement.
Extensive documentation is available online, here.
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News and Releases
| 4th May 12 | New Licensed Titles |
PathEngine is licensed for two additional titles at ZootFly (PC, Xbox 360, PS3).
| 3rd May 12 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed for another title at Eyedentity Games ('Dungeon Striker').
| 24th April 12 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by IKGAMES (South Korea).
| 26th March 12 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed by Reloaded Studios, for 'The Day'.
| 27th February 12 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by Smilegate.
| 24th February 12 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by Eyedentity Games.
| 19th January 12 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by TN Soft (Korea).
| 13th January 12 | SDK release 5.29 |
Mechanism for temporarily ignoring obstacles without invalidating dynamic collision caches
(for maximum performance).
Fast connectivity querying against changing obstacle state.
Preprocess generation optimisations.
| 12th January 12 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by Joymax, for 'Silkroad 2'.
| 4th January 12 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by Liveplex, for 'Queen's Blade'.
| 16th December 11 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed by Jagex, for 'Transformers Universe'.
| 27th September 11 | SDK release 5.28 |
Very significant speedups and memory management improvements.
New content processing functionality and options.
| 30th August 11 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed by Nexon Korea, for 'Bubble Fighter' ,
| 29th July 11 | New Licensed Titles |
PathEngine is licensed for 'Tiger and Chicken' (PC, Xbox 360), and another unannounced title (PC, Xbox 360, PS3), at Deck13 Interactive.
| 28th July 11 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed for another unannounced title, at IMC Games.
| 16th June 11 | SDK release 5.27 |
Memory and performance optimisations.
Voxel 3D processing improvements.
| 17th May 11 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed by Gravity, for 'Ragnarok Online 2'.
| 16th May 11 | Game Release |
Congratulations to CD Projekt RED on the release of 'The Witcher 2'.
| 11th May 11 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by UserJoy.
| 5th April 11 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed for 'Airline Tycoon 2' (B-Alive).
| 17th March 11 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by Ginno Games.
| 14th March 11 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by JoyCity.
| 11th March 11 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by CC Network Ltd. (China).
| 25th February 11 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by HanbitSoft for 'R.O.D.'.
| 15th February 11 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by Hope Island Inc. for two new titles.
| 14th February 11 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by ZootFly, for a yet to be announced title (PC, Xbox 360, PS3).
| 8th February 11 | SDK release 5.26 |
Internal reorganisation and refactoring.
Significant optimisations.
| 17th January 11 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed by Bigpoint, for 'Drakensang Online'.
| 10th January 11 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by N. DOLPHIN SOFT.
| 7th October 10 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed by Nexon, for 'Mabinogi'.
| 14th September 10 | SDK release 5.25 |
Helper for mesh generation around tiled obstructions.
Extended partitioning options.
Optimisations throughout SDK.
| 8th July 10 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed for 'Blade & Soul', from NCSoft.
| 23rd-24th June 10 | Event |
PathEngine is proud to sponsor the Game AI Conference 2010, in Paris.
| 4th June 10 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed for 'Aerrevan'.
| 27th May 10 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed by Webzen, for 'MU2'.
| 13th May 10 | Licensed Title |
Firefly Studios has announced 'Stronghold 3' (a PathEngine licensed title).
| 10th May 10 | SDK release 5.24 |
Pathfinding from multiple start positions.
Graph search optimisations.
Curved path generation improvements.
| 31st March 10 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed by WeMade Entertainment, for 'ChangChun II'.
| 22nd March 10 | Game Release |
Congratulations to Avalanche Studios
on the release of
'Just Cause 2'.
(PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
| 16th March 10 | Game Release |
Congratulations to 4A Games
on the release of
'Metro 2033: The Last Refuge'.
(PC, Xbox 360)
| 11th March 10 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by Barunson Games.
| 8th March 10 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by NPluto, for 'Soul Master'.
| 4th March 10 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by Eyasoft.
| 5th February 10 | New Licensee |
PathEngine is licensed by Dongseo University.
| 4th February 10 | Licensed Title |
CD Projekt RED has officially announced 'The Witcher 2'.
| 8th January 10 | SDK release 5.23 |
Memory footprint and loading time optimisations, API helpers, support for building directly from 3rd party physics scene data (currently PhysX, Havok).
| 6th January 10 | New Licensed Title |
PathEngine is licensed by WeMade Entertainment, for 'NED Online'.
| 5th January 10 | Licensed Title |
Heva Online (from PlayBuster) has entered open beta.