NavMesh Agent pause?

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1

Hello there I was wondering what would be the best aproch to pause a navmesh agents movent towards a target.

this is what im using, I am animating a from and would like it to hop from one area to another on its own. I have it going there with a hop animation, but its linial movement, so even when stopped (animation), the object is moving and looks bad of course.

I am using this code:

GetComponent(NavMeshAgent).destination = target.position;

Just need so pause the movement about half a second or even 1…
I have tried co-routines and timers, but the agent seems to override them all…

Many thanks in advance!

Cheers!

3

To pause the agent use NavMeshAgent's Stop() method. You can use the boolean to essentially stop abruptly (true) or smoothly with avoidance (false-the default).

To resume use Resume() and the agent continues to the current destination as you’d expect.

By the way, the above approach seems to be a valid alternative, though it might use a tad more cpu.

4

I’ve finally found a solution to pause and resume an agent instantly :

void pause() {
    	lastAgentVelocity = agent.velocity;
    	lastAgentPath = agent.path;
    	agent.velocity = Vector3.zero;
    	agent.ResetPath();
    }
    
    void resume() {
    	agent.velocity = lastAgentVelocity;
    	gent.SetPath(lastAgentPath);
    }
2

Bear in mind it could be slightly buggy i’ve never coded in javascript just inferred by reading it on this site the language syntax.

function wait(targetPos : vector3){

GetComponent(NavMeshAgent).destination = GameObject.transform.position;
yield WaitForSeconds(1);
GetComponent(NavMeshAgent).destination = target.position;
}

mark as answered :slight_smile: