Hey all,

Wanted to quickly share some of the major updates applied this week.

Interaction and Grid Movement

• Efficient A* Pathfinding algorithm

• Allows for custom interaction data at runtime for a post-launch update I'm planning

• Pathfinding navigation is calculated after all objects have spawned

Smart Snapping System

• Level editor snapping to grid now dynamically updates to allow objects of any size to snap together

• This will allow you to very rapidly put together kitbash models

New Foliage Brush + Mesh Load Optimization

• Moved the models from disk to memory after first load. This change speeds up load times and performance at a cost of memory.

• I used this new optimization to create a foliage brush. As you can see with the new system, you can spawn hundreds of objects with low performance impact.

• Load time averages reduced from 60.6 ms/obj to 5.8 ms/obj

Please leave any thoughts below, and thanks for reading.

Nik-