Godot 4 pathfinding is hard

Bobit

Depending on the settings the agent takes a very long time to pathfind or runs straight into the obstacles. I miss get_simple_path()... please help, pathfinding is a necessary component of my game and doing it full manual would be hard.

Bobit

Followup question: is there a 4.0 equivalent of get_simple_path? I would think so if you call some combination of functions, but which ones?

In general, I don't like that this isn't backward compatible. I don't like having to use this painful new pathfinding system in order to get access to uniform shaders and such. Why is the old way no longer supported when the new way is so different?

Calinou

Why is the old way no longer supported when the new way is so different?

The old navigation system had a lot of limitations that couldn't be lifed without breaking backward compatibility, such as the inability to bake navigation meshes at run-time. Run-time baking is essential for a lot of 3D games like RTSes.