Global Avoidance Settings (New for v. 8.4)

It's recommended to gain a solid understanding of the global avoidance settings before setting individual avoidance behaviors. You can find these settings in the Simulation section of the General Settings tab.

Enable Avoidance: Activate this to prevent characters from running into each other.
Avoidance deactivated.
With avoidance activated, characters will try to avoid from each other by halting and turning around.
Root Motion Override: Determines the likelihood of the root motion overriding the detection cylinders.
Root Motion Override: 0.00
Root Motion Override: 1.00
No override is allowed.
Reduce Backtrack: Activate this checkbox to let the characters pause more to wait for the path to clear, instead of backtracking.
Reduce Backtrack (deactivated): Characters turn 180 degrees when they cross paths.
Reduce Backtrack (activated): Characters pause more and wait for the other to pass.

Reroute Stuck Agents:

Enable this option to reduce character pauses and make it more likely that they will backtrack. While enabled, it's recommended to enhance route detection to prevent deadlocks.
Character will try to finish the initial journey via the shortest route when this feature is on.


Reroute Stuck Agents (disabled): Characters sometimes freeze with no options for circumvention.	Reroute Stuck Agents (enabled). Characters circumnavigate obstacles on their way to their destinations.

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Avoidance deactivated.	With avoidance activated, characters will try to avoid from each other by halting and turning around.


Root Motion Override: 0.00	Root Motion Override: 1.00 No override is allowed.


Reduce Backtrack (deactivated): Characters turn 180 degrees when they cross paths.	Reduce Backtrack (activated): Characters pause more and wait for the other to pass.