Golaem Crowd 1.4 (2012/03/15)

New Features

Mental Ray procedural plugin
RendermanStudioForMaya procedural plugin
CrowdField: Instance Entities - entities (far from the pov) can be now declared as instances (not simulated, just generated at render time from an animated fbx file) - allows handling thousand of entities with amazing performances
PopulationTool: added generation on mesh (can be dynamic)
AvoidanceTargetLocator: new scatter attribute
AvoidanceField: new boldness attribute
AvoidanceField: new personal Space Radius attribute
AvoidanceField: new onTargetReached enum attribute to control what to do when a target is reached (stop, pick next target, pick random target), valid for mode random target and target pool
AvoidanceField: new target mode - targetIdPP to affect manually a target to each particle
GeometryGroup: an AssetManager Character can now have several character geometries - this can be used to animate geometry which is not taken into account by the animation engine

SimulationTool: Python binding for the tool
SimulationTool: Interface & menus improvement
PopulationTool: huge performance improvement - particle generation is now a MpxCommand (instead of a MEL command) = 200k particles in 8sec
Asset Manager: repartition weight in an Asset Group of a rendering type can be set to 50
Asset Manager: CAM file path is displayed in the status bar
AvoidanceField: new EntityHeight attribute (useful for not-in-cms scenes)