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Autodesk® Kynapse®

Autodesk Kynapse for Games

Autodesk® Kynapse® middleware is the world's most widely used artificial intelligence (AI) engine in game development.

It has been adopted for more than 70 AAA titles, including Alone in the Dark 5, Crackdown, Fable 2, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Sacred 2, and The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™. See a more complete list of game titles that use Autodesk Kynapse.

Spatial Awareness for NPCs
Designed to give nonplayer characters (NPCs) spatial awareness so that they can realistically navigate digital environments, this high-performance engine supports dynamic 3D pathfinding, 3D topology analysis, and team coordination.

In addition to 3D pathfinding, its highly advanced pathfinding capabilities include dynamic environment evaluation and support for large-crowd pathfinding in complex terrains. With its efficient production tools and architecture designed for easy integration and customization, Kynapse streamlines the process of creating quality console and PC games.

Extensive Gaming Platform Support
Kynapse can be licensed for Sony PLAYSTATION®3, PSP® (PlayStation® Portable), and PlayStation® 2; Microsoft Xbox 360® and Xbox®, and Nintendo® consoles as well as PC (Windows® and Linux® operating systems).

Kynapse has also been fully integrated into the Unreal® Engine 3 developed by Epic Games, and Autodesk is a member of Epic's Integrated Partner Program. Versions of Kynapse have also been integrated into the Vision Engine (Trinigy), GameBryo™ (Emergent Game Technologies), and Virtools™ (Dassault Systèmes) game engines.

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