Custom AI Pathfinding of 2D game

[Commander_Shepard]

@Crispy_Penguin

Though similar solution might be possible, I would much rather use the “proper” way.

I see few issues with Z plane as well, please correct me if I am wrong, because I assume I misunderstood your suggestion.

• Using Z plane would require default gravity to be turned off and custom -X or -Y gravity implemented for each actor and character.
• Characters do not support “rotation” so custom character class would have to be created
• Characters would walk over the Z plane from one platform to the other, and “faking” jumps would require complex detection system
• Would require additional logic in pathfinding to handle walljump/wallrun anyway.

well ignore the z plane method.

You can just have the standard Z is down setup. and extend platforms and players as 3D objects using box and capsule collisions (which you’ll do anyway with Paper2D)

So it should not be any different at all from making navigation and pathfinding for a 3D game as only the visual part of your game is 2D sprites but the collision will always be 3D.