---
title: "NavMesh Generation Plugin"
subtitle: "A plugin to automatically generate a nav mesh from a Phaser Tilemap."
date: 2017-09-29T00:00:00.000Z
category: tutorial
url: https://phaser.io/news/2017/09/navmesh-generation-plugin
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# NavMesh Generation Plugin

*A plugin to automatically generate a nav mesh from a Phaser Tilemap.*

![image](navmesh-generation-plugin.png)

Pixelburp has released a new Phaser Plugin that will generate a nav mesh from a Tilemap: "This all started with a larger project I'm working on: it's going to (hopefully!) involve large tilemaps, a large number of sprites and procedural generation. A messy combination. As a result, I've been looking into ways I could perform pathfinding around Tilemaps in Phaser, and the most popular choice seems to be the grid-based a*star plugins; while in the main it probably does the job for smaller tilemaps, I don't think they scale very well.
 
One standard method of pathfinding used by other engines is something called Navigation (Nav) Meshes: basically, you calculate all the passable areas on your map and reduce it all to a small array of connected polygons, then figure out how to travel across those polygons"

There are videos, demos and the plugin is open source. So please give it a go and leave some feedback in the forum thread!

[Read More](http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/32941-phaser-plugin-navmesh-generation/)

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