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Introduction

The Agent-Based Modelling Framework for Unity3D (ABMU for short) is a set of tools that allow the development of Agent-Based Models (ABM) in the Unity3D platform.

ABMU allows modellers to take advantage of Unity's built-in methods and classes to create complex agent behaviours in 3D, including Physics, Navigation, Animation, etc, all written in native C#.

Developers familiar with Unity3D should find the ABMU framework quite familiar to work with, as it provides simple hooks for converting methods written in Unity into ABMU behaviours.

ABMU is extendable, and can be coupled with other Unity libraries and assets.

Behind-the-scenes, ABMU implements a scheduling system to handle the execution of agent behaviours at the correct time, simplifying the timestep implementation process and allowing modellers to focus on the agent and model behaviour.

Tutorials

1. For an introductory tutorial on how to implement ABMU in Unity, see the Using ABMU page.
2. For a tutorial on how to work with Unity's NavMesh pathfinding system within ABMU see the Using Unity NavMesh page.