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Crowd Animation User Interface

Crowd animation lets you simulate the behavior of crowds of people, animals, or other beings parametrically, using several different types of objects. The topics that follow describe the user interface for setting up a crowd simulation.

Crowd of mannequins in a subway station animated using character studio

Topics in this section
  • Crowd Shortcuts
    This topic summarizes the keyboard shortcuts available for crowd animation.
  • Delegate Helper Object
    The Delegate is a special helper object used in crowd animation. It serves as an agent for motion created by a Crowd Helper Object and its behaviors. The Crowd object controls any number of delegates, whose motion can then be imparted to a biped or other object. Delegates cannot be rendered.
  • Crowd Helper Object
    The Crowd helper object acts as the command center for controlling crowd simulations in character studio. In most cases, one Crowd object per scene is sufficient.
  • Vector Field Space Warp
    A vector field is a special type of space warp that crowd members use to move around irregular objects such as curved, concave surfaces. You can also apply it to particle motion with the Particle Flow Force operator.
  • Motion Synthesis
    The Crowd system can use two different types of motion synthesis, which lets character studio adjust the simulation results dynamically to account for differing conditions. This section deals with the application of motion synthesis to non-bipedal crowds, such as a flock of birds.
Parent topic: Crowd Animation

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