Guest Experience

Designing an exceptional guest experience begins with understanding how people move through your venue, and that is where Pathfinder excels.

And with the companion application, Pathfinder Results, stakeholders can step directly into immersive simulations, gaining enhanced insight so they can make smart decisions that improve the event experience.

Create realistic models of your event

Pathfinder makes it easy to create a detailed, realistic simulation of a concert or other live event with advanced control over individual agent behaviors. Model how guests navigate lobbies, receive tickets upon entry, and are guided to their seats by ushers, all with natural, believable movement.

Pathfinder's features help bring these scenarios to life:

• Queue tools enable smooth, orderly entry at ticketing booths and checkpoints
• User-defined objectives guide guests to specific seats, allowing for accurate modeling of audience placement and movement
• Environmental influences introduce spontaneous behaviors, such as people getting up mid-show to visit the restroom or concession stand

This level of detail gives planners the ability to fine-tune the guest experience and ensure every moment of the event, from arrival to curtain call, runs smoothly.

Optimize multi-floor events

Pathfinder is an ideal tool for modeling complex, multi-floor events such as conferences, where smooth circulation between levels is essential to a successful guest experience.

Whether attendees are navigating between breakout sessions, keynote halls, or exhibit floors, Pathfinder allows you to simulate realistic vertical movement using elevators, escalators, stairs, and ramps. Each of these elements can be precisely configured to reflect real-world capacities, speeds, and priorities, ensuring your model accurately represents how guests will move throughout the space.

Model scheduled events and parades

Pathfinder offers the precision and flexibility needed to model organized pedestrian processions in tightly scheduled events like parades, marches, or festivals in large-scale seating configurations.

(Also enabled: modeling support staff, security personnel, and emergency access)

Simulate detailed movement paths for performers, participants, and spectators, accounting for timing, spacing, and interactions along the route. Guide groups along specific paths with synchronized timing and simulate dynamic changes such as pausing movement for a crowd interaction.

See Pathfinder in Action

Guillame LaGaillarde from our French partner and reseller, 1Point2, recently used Pathfinder to model the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. See his talk from FEMTC 2024 about the topic.

See the FEMTC 2024 Talk

Create views and tours that let customers experience their events firsthand

Through Pathfinder Results, don't just simulate movement, bring your event plans to life in vivid, compelling detail.

The Results app elevates your visualization with the capacity to create custom camera views and guided tours that showcase key moments of your simulation, making it easy to communicate your vision to clients, stakeholders, or planning committees.

• Generate movies that follow a specific agent, such as a VIP guest or staff member, throughout their entire route, providing a clear, narrative-driven perspective on the event experience.
• Use VR mode, enabling stakeholders to explore the environment in real time from a first-person point of view.
• With high-resolution, multi-frame screenshot generation, quickly produce visuals for reports, presentations, or marketing materials.

Whether you're illustrating circulation flow or highlighting design improvements, Results turns simulation data into engaging visual stories that drive confident decision-making.