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Overview :
AStar 2D is a complete pathfinding solution for 2D tile- or grid-based Unity games. It is ideally suited to top-down tile-based games and tower defense games but can easily be adapted to work in other scenarios.
Highlights:
- Quick and easy setup / integration into existing projects
- Includes easily expandable agent class for path following
- Support for dynamic obstacles using 2D colliders
- Supports node weightings to influence paths based on a penalty value
- Dynamic route updates for changing environments
- Supports any number of search grids
- Assign different grids to different agents to reduce the search space
- Enable / disable diagonal movements in the click of a mouse
- Offload the expensive pathfinding calculations to separate threads to maintain maximum performance (All done behind the scenes, works out of the box)
- Includes visualization tools to help with debugging and analyzing performance
- Includes example scenes and stress tests
- All scripts use custom namespaces to prevent clashing type names
- Comprehensive .chm documentation of the API for quick and easy reference
- Fully commented C# source code included