[Bf-committers] Built-In Crowd Simulation

[Janne Karhu]

For quite a while I've been developing a better boids system for particles:

For some very basic info on the new system check:
http://jahkaparticles.blogspot.com/2009/05/boids-v2-introduction.html
http://jahkaparticles.blogspot.com/2009/05/boids-v2-in-air-and-on-land.html

I have lot's of more features allready coded (like primitive battle  
between boids), but no time currently to make preview vids :)

This system will most likely be worked into a very capable boid/crowd  
simulation tool when the movie project Durian kicks off.

janne


On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:13:11 +0300, Scott Pledger  
<scottpledger2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was just watching the Lord of the Rings, and I was thinking, wouldn't  
> it
> be nice if I could do crowd simulations like that?  So I went and tried  
> to
> find a way to do it with blender, but I couldn't get BlenderPeople to  
> work
> with Blender 2.48 or 2.49.  Then I thought why shouldn't we build it  
> right
> into blender?  It'd be faster than doing it with Python and I think that  
> we
> could probably make it happen.  The only good crowd simulator out there  
> that
> I've been able to find is ludicrously expensive. Anyone with me on this
> idea?
> Yours Truly,
> Scott R. Pledger
> Pledge Computers
> scottpledger2005 at gmail.com
> (303)601-6987
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