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Behaviour Birds Placement issue

Behaviour Birds Placement issue

2005-05-30       - By admin@(protected)

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Hello,

Simply draw a curve in xsi and move it over as a world file (i haven't tried
closed curves and don't know if behaviour likes it) and then use the
PopulateCurve(), function in order to spread some actors around it. (details
should be in the docs). Good luck,

Fabian



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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of
Sandy Sutherland
Sent: 30 May 2005 10:56
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Behaviour Birds Placement issue



Hi All,



A Quick question, I might be doing a shot in Behaviour which is 300 odd
bird/vulture like characters circling up in a huge environment, I am a
novice at Behaviour, and have bascially (hopefully) sussed the rest to this,
but I am coming a bit short on the start of the shot - all the Tutorials are
on ground based characters, so the placement methods are all for putting
objects or characters on the ground - so how do you start the shot i.e.
place your actors in position in mid air???  What tool would you use, or do
you have to do it with piccolo?



Thanks



Sandy



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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Simply draw a curve in xsi and move it
over as a world file (i haven&#8217;t tried closed curves and don&#8217;t know
if behaviour likes it) and then use the PopulateCurve(), function in order to
spread some actors around it. (details should be in the docs). Good luck,<o:p><
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a novice at Behaviour, and have bascially (hopefully) sussed the rest to this,
but I am coming a bit short on the start of the shot - all the Tutorials are on
ground based characters, so the placement methods are all for putting objects or
characters on the ground - so how do you start&nbsp;the shot i.e. place your
actors in position in mid air???&nbsp; What tool would you use, or do you have
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