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Hi Brad - I was keen on using Behaviour, but I think that it may just be a
little tight on time to do this, especially as it seems that 'flying' things
are not as catered for as walking on land things as it were! - Will probably
go into particles!
Thanks
Sandy
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Sandy Sutherland Digital Doodeller - TD
The Refinery (Cape) http://www.refinery.co.za
mailto:sandy@(protected)
(P) (+27 21) 480 3132 (F) (+27 21) 480 3101
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-- -- Original Message -- --
From: Bradley R. Gabe
To: XSI@(protected)
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: Help - Behaviour and Bird Flocks
If you're doing only 300 characters, it may be few enough to get your flight
paths done with particle sim and then plot your birds onto them. You can do
things like using velocity to control speed of wing flapping and direction to
control wing posture, etc.
Unless you're really keen on using behavior for this effect? It may also be a
good situation for learning.
-Brad
Hi Guys,
I am in the begginings of this shot which needs 300 odd bird characters
flying upwards in a spiral sort of flock thing, now I am a complete novice to
Behaviour - so have tried to find a way to populate a scene and fly stuff
upwards!! So Far: Behaviour is great at Crowd / Ground interaction stuff -
easy to populate a ground terrain thing, but as soon as you do so, your
characters are stuck to the ground - I drew a curve spiralling upwards to try
and get them to move upwards - no way, they amble aimlessly around on the
ground without direction. Try Flocking, you cannot draw a flock target in the
air, it has to be on the floor/terrain - I looked at the boids example, it is
sort of what I need, BUT for a novice, it is very daunting to try and reverse
engineer the scripts to find out what is going on, AND the world file is pre
-populated, so it is difficult to see how to do this even!
Anyone got any help for me please - pointers etc.. even a small behaviour
scene file would be great to look at!
Thanks a mill'
Sandy
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Sandy Sutherland Digital Doodeller - TD
The Refinery (Cape) http://www.refinery.co.za
mailto:sandy@(protected)
(P) (+27 21) 480 3132 (F) (+27 21) 480 3101
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Brad - I was keen on using Behaviour, but I
think that it may just be a little tight on time to do this, especially as it
seems that 'flying' things are not as catered for as walking on land things as
it were! - Will probably go into particles!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sandy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----<BR>Sandy
Sutherland Digital Doodeller - TD<BR>The Refinery
(Cape) <A
href="http://www.refinery.co.za">http://www.refinery.co.za</A><BR><A
href="mailto:sandy@(protected)">mailto:sandy@(protected)</A><BR>(P) (+27
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:37 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Help - Behaviour and Bird
Flocks</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>If you're doing only 300 characters, it may be few enough to
get your flight paths done with particle sim and then plot your birds onto
them. You can do things like using velocity to control speed of wing flapping
and direction to control wing posture, etc.<BR><BR>Unless you're really keen
on using behavior for this effect? It may also be a good situation for
learning.<BR><BR>-Brad<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=arial size=2>Hi
Guys,<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>I am in the begginings of
this shot which needs 300 odd bird characters flying upwards in a spiral
sort of flock thing, now I am a complete novice to Behaviour - so have
tried
to find a way to populate a scene and fly stuff upwards!! So
Far: Behaviour is great at Crowd / Ground interaction stuff - easy to
populate a ground terrain thing, but as soon as you do so, your characters
are stuck to the ground - I drew a curve spiralling upwards to try and get
them to move upwards - no way, they amble aimlessly around on the ground
without direction. Try Flocking, you cannot draw a flock target in
the
air, it has to be on the floor/terrain - I looked at the boids example, it
is sort of what I need, BUT for a novice, it is very daunting to try and
reverse engineer the scripts to find out what is going on, AND the world
file is pre-populated, so it is difficult to see how to do this
even!<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>Anyone got any help for
me
please - pointers etc.. even a small behaviour scene file would be
great to look at!<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>Thanks a
mill'<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>Sandy<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial
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Sutherland Digital Doodeller - TD<BR>The Refinery (Cape) <A
href="http://www.refinery.co.za">http://www.refinery.co.za</A><BR><A
href="mailto:sandy@(protected)"
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