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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