Crowd Agent Shapes - how are they made?

[dansidi]

Hi eveyone,

I'm hoping to get a little help from a Crowd person on here.

When making an Agent, how do you get different parts of the geometry to be different Agent Shapes?

Let's say I have a mesh from an FBX. The mesh is a single piece, however the primitives have an attribute called @shop_materialpath

I want all the primitives with @shop_materialpath = "shirt" to be one Agent Shape

and all primitives with @shop_materialpath = "skin" to be another Agent Shape, and so on.

Am I making sense here?

 

If any kind person can help me, I would be grateful.

 

Many thanks

Dan

[skomdra]

Hi Dan. Not a crowd guy, but just a question, why don't you split your fbx based on @shop_materialpath and make separate agents? Isn't agent just a packed primitive? Even if your geo is binded on the skeleton it should still respect your selection based on the primitive attribute. But probably someone with a crowd experience should offer some advice here. 

[dansidi]

Thanks Drasko,

I'm hoping I won't have to make seperate agents or agent layers to do do what I want.

I think you might be on the right track, though.

Thanks a lot!