Kythera AI Middleware - Navigation & Behaviour AI Built For Unreal Engine
Navigation & Behaviour AI Done Better
Epic Games' Unreal Engine gives developers an expansive array of game-creation tools. With frequent updates and wide use across platforms, it's a formidable asset for any development team, and the Kythera AI plugin makes it more powerful still.
Kythera AI offers a full, end-to-end navigation and behaviour toolkit out of the box. It matches what Unreal Engine's built-in AI can do and goes well beyond it, adding capabilities that Unreal's AI simply doesn't have.
Ground & Surface Navigation
Hierarchical pathfinding
AI Planning
Cover Analysis
Automated Markup
Everything they need to move through their world, think, strategise, and outwit one another.
Fully Integrated With Unreal Engine
Kythera AI is fully integrated with Unreal Engine and interoperates with it smoothly, so it's straightforward for Unreal-trained developers to adopt, even when it's brought into a project in the later stages of development.
Our own visual editing and debugging tools sit alongside your existing Unreal workflow, letting designers create, edit, and debug complex behaviour quickly and intuitively, with flexible control over how agents think and act.
Out of the box, Kythera AI gives your NPCs ground and surface navigation, hierarchical pathfinding, cover analysis, automated markup and a state-of-the-art AI Planning system.
Ground & Surface Navigation
Entities have the ability to traverse walls, ceilings, and surfaces of any orientation. Kythera analyses geometry and plots optimal routes, moving entities seamlessly while dynamically adjusting their speed and rotation during surface transitions.
AI Planning
Kythera AI features an AI Planning system which offers enhanced expressiveness when compared to traditional Goal-Oriented Action Planners (GOAP). This allows NPCs to consider their actions and surroundings.
Hierarchical Pathfinding
Enable pathfinding across vast, partially loaded environments through a hierarchical structure that is automatically built as part of the NavMesh generation workflow.
Cover Analysis
Analyze the environment to detect and classify potential cover locations for dynamic, cover-based combat. Use Kythera’s built-in cover types or define custom classifiers to support your game’s specific cover mechanics. Cover points can be queried using attributes such as exposure, orientation, and other configurable properties.
Access cover data through native code or seamlessly integrate with Unreal Engine’s fully supported Environment Query System (EQS).
Automated Markup
Accelerate level design by automatically capturing surface properties during NavMesh generation, eliminating the need to manually place navigation cost modifiers.
Control pathfinding costs to encourage characters to follow preferred routes, such as roads, or steer clear of hazardous areas.
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