Kynapse is the artificial intelligence middleware product, developed by Kynogon, which was bought by Autodesk in 2008 and called Autodesk Kynapse. In 2011, it has been re-engineered and rebranded Autodesk Navigation.[3]
Since the discontinuation of Autodesk Gameware, the product is obsolete.
Features
- A complete 3D pathfinding
- An automatic AI data generation tool
- Optimizations for multicore/multiprocessing/Cell architectures
- Spatial reasoning
- Streaming mechanisms to handle very large terrains
- The management of dynamic and destructible terrains
Usage
Kynapse has been used in the development of more than 80 game titles including Mafia II, Crackdown,[4] Alone in the Dark 5,[5] Fable II, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar[6] and the Unreal Engine. Kynapse is also being used by companies such as EADS,[7] BAE Systems or Électricité de France to develop military or industrial simulation.
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