Mass Illusion

[Aegis]

Hmmmm, create a big crap load of curves in the shape of the crowd (is the crowd on multiple levels?) with a tun of CVs....

[DominikSusmel]

hm, interesting note about using curves...It would work if I didn't have in mind interaction with environment and with other crowd (battle scene). And, yes, they are on multiple levels, but I consider each level as a separate scene, so it doesn't matter. I'm most concerned with interaction between two (actually, 3) crowd systems. For environment I'll use a carrot and stick principle.

[DominikSusmel]

BTW, how can you add an image in your profile?

[mind]

I have recently worked on a project involving schools of fish. Jeez, lots of fish and one condition: they had to look and move just like the real ones.
I studied a lot of discovery documentaries and went through a lot of "research".
I started to look up for crowd simulation engines and techniques to develop software for such. Writing a plug-in using a colision basis was my first thought. But when I was just about to start I realized it would be a pain in the ass and I couldn't afford the time to meet my dead line.
So I designed a entire "fish motion scene system" in Maya (that's how I call it and that's what it is). Basically it's a custom system of several particle systems run by multible fields, instances, geometry, goals, creation and runtime expressions, all also run by a master Mel script which enables to control several aspects of these systems, one by one or as an entire group and also switching modes like singular systems, group systems or a single group. Combined with some instancing scripts I came up with made it look it awsome and now I'm implementing this into a plug-in to create several other kinds of crowd.
They started to make fun of me saying I'm not human, but a fish with lungs.
Ouch!

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