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Since the discontinuation of Autodesk Gameware, the product is obsolete.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.

References

External links

• Official website^{[dead link]}