Setting up the map

To get started, let's build a simple scene as, shown in the following screenshot. This is the first scene in the sample project, and is called NavMesh01-Simple.scene. You can use a plane as a ground object and several cube entities as the wall objects:

An image of the NavMesh01-Simple scene, a plane with obstacles

Navigation static

Once we add the floor and the obstacles, it is important to mark them as Navigation Static so that the NavMesh generator knows that those are the static objects to avoid. To do this, select all of the objects, click on the Static button, and choose Navigation Static, as shown in the following screenshot:

The Navigation Static property

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