Friday 14 March 2014

Need help creating crowds

I've been trying to animate the podium scene in which there are legions of soldiers marching past the camera. The problem is if i try to import multiple marching soldier rigs, Maya ultimately freezes up from the sheer amount of memory needed to process them all, so I need to know how to create an animated crowd marching in unison. I remember there being a tutorial on the CG arts tutorial blog, but I can't find it any longer.
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  1. Andriana Laskari14 March 2014 at 12:39

    Hi Tom,

    Try instances/ Particles. That should be the best way to do it. You might have to bake the animation first to save up some memory. It should be the goldfish tutorial- from what I can remember.

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    1. TFarrington14 March 2014 at 14:45

      That only seems to work with one-mesh objects. The soldiers I've made have multiple meshes to them all bound to one rig.

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  2. Emma Foster14 March 2014 at 14:23

    Hi Tom, the instance/particles tutorials are on this page http://cgartsandanimationtutorials2014.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/dynamics-2-goals-instances-sprites.html

    There are some instancing animation cycle tutorials near the bottom which include the goldfish one Andi is talking about and a robot one :) hope that helps!

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