Crowd moving over each other

[nielsm]

Hi!

I have a crowd simulation of ants that idle and walk, they are quite dense packed so to reduce intersections I want some to move on top of the others. Lets say when they are close to eachother I want one of them to move over the other agent.
A simple y position change will do it I think.

My setup is simple, I have a terrainproject and terrainadaption first to position the ants on the terrain. Then im thinking of using a popwrangle.

But wilst thinking it through I see multiple issues, getting the proximity to each other is simple. 
But how do I choose which on will move up? And what if mulitple points are in proximity of each other?

Does anyone have a good workflow for this? 

Thanks!

Edited November 16, 2025 by nielsm

[Librarian]

can be useful 
https://www.doublejumpacademy.com/community-files/world-war-z---crowd

 

[hannes603]

On 11/16/2025 at 9:29 PM, Librarian said:

can be useful 
https://www.doublejumpacademy.com/community-files/world-war-z---crowd

 

nice but the scene is super heavy. think thats needed to be simplified

[nielsm]

Thanks! Ill have a look into it

[hannes603]

On 11/25/2025 at 4:08 PM, nielsm said:

Thanks! Ill have a look into it

would be nice if you could send us the scene if you have the time to simplify it .<3