LavishNav

Overview

What is LavishNav?

LavishNav intends to be a fully-featured, application-independent navigational system. Its goal is to provide premium, efficient, scalable navigation in 3-dimensional space. It integrates with LavishScript to provide uniform access to the system via commands and objects.

Basics

LavishNav encompasses these basic parts

• Regions
  • Region Naming
    • Unique Names
    • Region Name Search
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Best Container algorithm
  • Region Types
    • Singularity
      • Point
    • 2-dimensional (containment behavior)
      • Radius
      • Triangle
      • Rect
    • 3-dimensional
      • Sphere
      • Prism
      • Box
    • Universal
      • Universe
      • Aggregate
• Region Groups
• Connections
• Pathfinders
  • A* (A Star)
  • Dijkstra's
• Storage
  • XML
  • LavishSO (LSO) - like a binary XML, LSO format can be used for large data sets instead of (or in addition to) XML. This is faster and uses less disk space, but cannot easily be viewed or modified with a text editor.
• Access via LavishScript
  • Object Types
  • Top-Level Objects
• Access via .NET (Inner Space)
  • See Lavish.LavishNav.dll

Implementation considerations

• See Implementation Considerations
• See Comments on Creating Avoidance Regions