San Francisco, CA – Aug 10, 2011 – xaitment, the creators of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) middleware for video games and simulations, today announced that it has combined the previously named xaitMap and xaitMove products to create a single, new product named xaitMap 3.0. The new product, which couples pathfinding and automatic navigation mesh (NavMesh) generation with a flexible movement core, provides game and simulation developers with a more integrated and intuitive approach for creating intelligent entity and crowd movement. xaitment will demonstrate xaitMap 3.0 at gamescom 2011 (Hall 04.1, Stand D030).
Prior to xaitMap 3.0, xaitment offered pathfinding and movement functionality in two separate modules – xaitMap and xaitMove – to give developers a more affordable choice that didn’t lock them into more functionality than they needed. Over time, however, NavMesh generation, pathfinding and movement have become more integrated and more necessary for a wider range of games, which necessitated a melding of the two products into one: xaitMap 3.0.
“NavMesh generation, pathfinding and movement are all critical components to any AI solution,” said Thorsten Maier, CTO of xaitment. “With xaitMap 3.0, we’ve not only enhanced our pathfinding and NavMesh generation tools, we’ve now added a highly flexible movement core that allows every studio to modify or add functionality as they see fit.”
In addition to the already rich feature set included in previous versions of xaitMap, xaitMap 3.0 comes with a number of major upgrades, including:
- A new, dynamic blocking pathobject for simulating doors, destructible objects and the like
- The ability to add custom data to, and handle it in, the NavMash
- A fully integrated, fully customizable movement core with:
- A well-defined object-oriented interface
- Support for physics engines, such as NVIDIA’s PhysX (a PhysX demo is included)
- A predefined, extensible path follower
- Entity avoidance
- An exchangeable collision interface
- Multiple, simulation worlds
- Detailed code tutorials
xaitMap 3.0 will be available as of gamescom 2011 for PC, Xbox 360 ®, PlayStation ®3 and Wii™. xaitment will be demoing xaitMap 3.0 and its other modules at gamescom 2011 (Hall 04.1, Stand D030). To set up an appointment, email sales@xaitment.com.
For more information contact:
xaitment GmbH
Julia Ziemann
Communications
Phone: +49 (0) 6897 / 600 80-22
Fax: +49 (0) 6897 / 600 80-20
Email: julia.ziemann@xaitment.com
Web: www.xaitment.com
About xaitment
xaitment GmbH/Inc. is a leading developer of AI game tools for the simulations and video game industries. Founded in Germany in 2004, xaitment offers AI middleware that goes beyond pathfinding. xaitment's AI game tools enable developers, through easy-to-use graphical user interfaces, to create automatic navigation mesh builds, movement behaviors, crowd simulations, hierarchical probabilistic finite state machines, world descriptions, autonomic behaviors, and experience-based and inference-based learning behaviors for computer generated characters. For more information, please visit www.xaitment.com.
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