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In this masterclass, William van der Sterren goes over the whole process of acquiring annotations for a level automatically, from finding a set of waypoints that describe the level by filtering out low quality waypoints and keeping the best, to connecting them together for tactical path-finding, as well as movement annotations. A whole section of the talk is also focused on area clustering, or the process of creating a an extra layer in the navigation hierarchy to support things like squad behaviors and reasoning for groups of soldiers.
