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If some object changes position in a map, instead of rebuilding the whole navigation structure, one can update it using the iCelHNavStruct::Update() method. This method takes a bounding box and a pointer to a sector as parameters (although the sector is optional): the bounding box describes the area of the navigation mesh that one wishes to update, and the sector determines which sector should be updated. If no sector is specified, then the bounding box will be collided with each of the sectors navigation meshes' bounding boxes to determine what sectors have to be updated.

Note that this should probably not be used for objects that are on constant movement (npcs for example), since it's not very fast. This can be seen on the apppathfindingtest application by pressing 'y' (check last modifications to the demo application on this post).

Although updating a navigation structure takes some time, it is still way faster then rebuilding it.