Basic crowd sim possibility

Kadri · August 17, 2015, 08:07:53 PM

Quote from: TheBadger on August 17, 2015, 01:27:38 PM
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Has anyone tried to edit out a instance yet? or move it or anything?

I just tried it a little. It works,deleting and moving.
Moving looks like translating an object node inside the population as i saw in my earlier test.
The moved instance behaves as it is in its original position.
So can be over -under the ground.But you can fix that too of course.

Hannes · August 18, 2015, 02:34:34 AM

I refined the walking cycle a bit, so that the guy is slightly moving upwards and downwards as well as less gliding. I think it's better now.
Here is a short clip of a whole population set marching in lockstep. It looks a bit jerky, but that's a result of the video compression. The original is a bit smoother.

The model is a freebie named SWAT guy from somewhere in the net. For testing purposes it's OK I think. I'll work on a more irregular animation now with more populations that are not in sync.

Kadri · August 18, 2015, 02:46:33 AM

Too much sliding but that isn't a complain, really much much better then i thought it would be like.Nice

Curious of the next one.

Dune · August 18, 2015, 02:58:43 AM

Super results, I love it!

Hannes · August 18, 2015, 03:45:23 AM

Offsetting the animation is a bit tedious, but easy. In the animation editor you can type in a value at the bottom of the page, then select all the keyframes you want to move and hit the little button with the wheel and choose "Move by frames".

Kadri · August 18, 2015, 03:55:53 AM

Nice.

Hannes · August 18, 2015, 06:31:13 AM

An animation of twentyfive populations (five populations per character) with offset walking cycles.
It's almost impossible to get rid of some amount of sliding. I did a lot of tests changing the population areas' speed. I think this is the most I get get.

Kadri · August 18, 2015, 06:51:50 AM

Every test is better then the one before Hannes. Great

Hannes · August 18, 2015, 08:07:35 AM

I used a better model for testing. At the moment it seems a bit like all the guys have crapped their pants

, but the angle of their legs can be adjusted easily.

Kadri · August 18, 2015, 08:14:05 AM

Looks good but it is not an animation GIF?
When i download it it is only 155 726 bytes big.
The file size looks much bigger on the page.

Aaa...now it works

Great

Hannes · August 18, 2015, 08:15:03 AM

I updated the gif. For some reason it didn't animate. Now it does.

Kadri · August 18, 2015, 08:15:56 AM

Yep.

Hannes · August 18, 2015, 08:28:50 AM

Better now. There are visible seams where the legs are attached to the body. I'll have to take care of that.

Kadri · August 18, 2015, 08:53:58 AM

Dune · August 18, 2015, 08:59:01 AM

Cool, guys!