Culling areas
Being able to set up areas as walkable or not is an important part of creating a level. To demo this, let's divide the level into two parts and create a bridge between the two. Take our demo and duplicate the floor and pull it down. Then transform one of the walls to a bridge. Then, add two other pieces of geometry to mark areas that are dangerous to walk on, like lava.
Here is an example setup:
This is a basic scene with a bridge to cross.
If you recreate the navigation mesh now, all the geometry will be covered and the bridge won't be recognized. To fix this, you can create a new tag called Lava and tag the geometry under the bridge with it. Then, in the navigation meshes' RAIN component, add Lava to the unwalkable tags. If you then regenerate the mesh, only the bridge is walkable. This is a screenshot of a navigation mesh with polygons that are under the bridge culled out:
To see this in action, create a new ship and add a target to the scene on different sizes...
