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Hi, Some R&D about the Crowd system. Ultimately, I want to recreate a shot from World War Z (more or less a zombie pyramid, where they are crawling over each others, but "realistically", without too much interpenetration). For the time being I am testing a much more simpler setup to allow agents walking over other agents, using regular nodes and limited code. In this scene I try to recreate the AdaptGround Behavior of Golaem crowd system (http://golaem.com/content/doc/golaem-crowd-documentation/adaptground-behavior) : my "troops" agents can walk on dead / ragdoll agents. For the time being, the dead agents are only taken into account for terrain projection, not yet terrain adaptation / foot planting. If anyone has ideas about that - foot planting and particularly floot planting on uneven ground - , I would be happy to learn or explore these directions ! :-) I have opened the agent_util.h, terrain_adaptation.h, terrain_projection.h ... VEX code used by the crowd system, but foot planting remains complex and doesn't seem to be easily hacked... (by the way, I have used some code coming from there for this setup) MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS SETUP : - In DOP, I duplicate the ground with a poly version of it (convert heightfield to poly) : this is an object that I call "offsetTerrain" - In DOP, I duplicate the crowd geometry and keep only the dead agents : inside the crowd object (allow editing of content) I add a fetch data and duplicate Geometry into standGuyGeometry. Then with a SOP Solver, I delete all the agents except the dead ones (that happens to be ragdolls, but would work with any other agents). - I use the DOP data "offsetGeometry" of the object "offsetTerrain" in a Geometry Wrangle to create an attribute (@offsetDead) on each point of the farthest distance of intersection with the standGuyGeometry. - Using another SOPSolver, I blur the @offsetDead attribute created above, to smooth the trajectory of my future agents when stepping on the dead agents. - In the stream of the crows state of the walking agents, I add a POP Wrangle to sample the "offsetTerrain" geometry (2nd input of the POPWrangle), and get the attribute created previously (@offsetDead) - In the agenTerrainProjection1 node, I go inside and change the VEX code of the POPWrangle : I change parms.offset = chf("../offset"); with : parms.offset = f@offsetDead; Therefore, each agent has its own offset and virtually walk over the dead. testWalkOverDeads_vMocapBiped.hip
