diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 98bde6a..bda8833 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1167,6 +1167,26 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bindgen"
+version = "0.72.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4f72209734318d0b619a5e0f5129918b848c416e122a3c4ce054e03cb87b726f"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.9.1",
+ "cexpr",
+ "clang-sys",
+ "itertools 0.13.0",
+ "log",
+ "prettyplease",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "regex",
+ "rustc-hash 2.1.1",
+ "shlex",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "binrw"
 version = "0.15.0"
@@ -1332,21 +1352,11 @@ checksum = "d71b6127be86fdcfddb610f7182ac57211d4b18a3e9c82eb2d17662f2227ad6a"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bzip2"
-version = "0.5.2"
+version = "0.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "49ecfb22d906f800d4fe833b6282cf4dc1c298f5057ca0b5445e5c209735ca47"
+checksum = "bea8dcd42434048e4f7a304411d9273a411f647446c1234a65ce0554923f4cff"
 dependencies = [
- "bzip2-sys",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "bzip2-sys"
-version = "0.1.13+1.0.8"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "225bff33b2141874fe80d71e07d6eec4f85c5c216453dd96388240f96e1acc14"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
- "pkg-config",
+ "libbz2-rs-sys",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1412,6 +1422,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "libloading",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cmake"
+version = "0.1.54"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e7caa3f9de89ddbe2c607f4101924c5abec803763ae9534e4f4d7d8f84aa81f0"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "codespan-reporting"
 version = "0.11.1"
@@ -2529,6 +2548,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "minijinja",
  "mlua",
  "physis",
+ "recastnavigation-sys",
  "reqwest",
  "rkon",
  "rusqlite",
@@ -2575,6 +2595,12 @@ version = "1.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "bbd2bcb4c963f2ddae06a2efc7e9f3591312473c50c6685e1f298068316e66fe"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "libbz2-rs-sys"
+version = "0.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "775bf80d5878ab7c2b1080b5351a48b2f737d9f6f8b383574eebcc22be0dfccb"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "libc"
 version = "0.2.174"
@@ -3571,6 +3597,17 @@ version = "0.6.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "20675572f6f24e9e76ef639bc5552774ed45f1c30e2951e1e99c59888861c539"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "recastnavigation-sys"
+version = "1.0.3"
+source = "git+https://github.com/redstrate/recastnavigation-rs-sys#e24975b0bfac9014b2c33bdeb011f3c7107286fc"
+dependencies = [
+ "bindgen 0.72.0",
+ "cc",
+ "cmake",
+ "static_assertions",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rectangle-pack"
 version = "0.4.2"
@@ -4317,7 +4354,7 @@ version = "0.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "528bdd1f0e27b5dd9a4ededf154e824b0532731e4af73bb531de46276e0aab1e"
 dependencies = [
- "bindgen",
+ "bindgen 0.70.1",
  "cc",
  "cfg-if",
  "once_cell",
@@ -5214,9 +5251,9 @@ checksum = "b9cc00251562a284751c9973bace760d86c0276c471b4be569fe6b068ee97a56"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xml-rs"
-version = "0.8.26"
+version = "0.8.27"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a62ce76d9b56901b19a74f19431b0d8b3bc7ca4ad685a746dfd78ca8f4fc6bda"
+checksum = "6fd8403733700263c6eb89f192880191f1b83e332f7a20371ddcf421c4a337c7"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "yoke"
@@ -5318,9 +5355,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zip"
-version = "4.2.0"
+version = "4.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "95ab361742de920c5535880f89bbd611ee62002bf11341d16a5f057bb8ba6899"
+checksum = "9aed4ac33e8eb078c89e6cbb1d5c4c7703ec6d299fc3e7c3695af8f8b423468b"
 dependencies = [
  "arbitrary",
  "bzip2",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0d7ab7c..cef5ff2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ default = []
 oodle = []
 
 # Navmesh visualizer
-visualizer = ["dep:bevy"]
+visualizer = ["dep:bevy", "dep:recastnavigation-sys"]
 
 [build-dependencies]
 # Serialization of IPC opcodes
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ bevy = { version = "0.16", features = ["std",
   "tonemapping_luts",
   "x11"], default-features = false, optional = true }
 
+# for navimesh generation
+recastnavigation-sys = { git = "https://github.com/redstrate/recastnavigation-rs-sys", features = ["recast"], optional = true }
+
 [target.'cfg(not(target_family = "wasm"))'.dependencies]
 # Used for the web servers
 axum = { version = "0.8", features = ["json", "tokio", "http1", "form", "query", "multipart"], default-features = false }
diff --git a/src/bin/kawari-navimesh.rs b/src/bin/kawari-navimesh.rs
index 25fc9a6..c63234d 100644
--- a/src/bin/kawari-navimesh.rs
+++ b/src/bin/kawari-navimesh.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ use physis::{
     pcb::{Pcb, ResourceNode},
     resource::{Resource, SqPackResource},
 };
+use recastnavigation_sys::rcAllocPolyMesh;
 
 #[derive(Resource)]
 struct ZoneToLoad(u16);
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ fn walk_node(
     meshes: &mut ResMut<Assets<Mesh>>,
     materials: &mut ResMut<Assets<StandardMaterial>>,
     transform: &Transformation,
+    //tile_input_builder: &mut TileInputBuilder,
 ) {
     if !node.vertices.is_empty() {
         let mut mesh = Mesh::new(
@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ fn walk_node(
             positions.push(vec.clone());
         }
 
-        mesh.insert_attribute(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION, positions);
+        mesh.insert_attribute(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION, positions.clone());
 
         let mut indices = Vec::new();
         for polygon in &node.polygons {
@@ -60,8 +62,9 @@ fn walk_node(
             indices.append(&mut vec);
         }
 
-        mesh.insert_indices(Indices::U32(indices));
+        mesh.insert_indices(Indices::U32(indices.clone()));
 
+        // insert into 3d scene
         commands.spawn((
             Mesh3d(meshes.add(mesh)),
             MeshMaterial3d(materials.add(Color::srgb(
@@ -80,6 +83,12 @@ fn walk_node(
                 scale: Vec3::from_array(transform.scale),
             },
         ));
+
+        // insert into navmesh builder
+        //let tile_vertices: Vec<DtVector> = positions.iter().map(|vec| DtVector::new(vec[0], vec[1], vec[2])).collect();
+        //let tile_indices: Vec<i32> = indices.iter().map(|x| *x as i32).collect();
+
+        //tile_input_builder.append(&tile_vertices, &tile_indices, 0);
     }
 
     for child in &node.children {
@@ -114,6 +123,10 @@ fn setup(
     let lvb_file = sqpack_resource.read(&path).unwrap();
     let lvb = Lvb::from_existing(&lvb_file).unwrap();
 
+    unsafe {
+        let poly_mesh = rcAllocPolyMesh();
+    }
+
     for path in &lvb.scns[0].header.path_layer_group_resources {
         if path.contains("bg.lgb") {
             tracing::info!("Processing {path}...");
@@ -150,6 +163,7 @@ fn setup(
                                     &mut meshes,
                                     &mut materials,
                                     &object.transform,
+                                    //&mut tile_input_builder,
                                 );
                             }
                         }