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Automatron Example Movies

1. 63ManMarch / November 29 2005

2. 63ManMarch / November 30 2005

3. Automadrome / December 13 2005

4. Flavor Packets/ December 14 2005
This scene was created in under 20 minutes... well after months of working to create Automatron. I also wrote special script to create the crowd. This simple crowd feature will arrive sometime after the release of version one.
How it was done...
1. Starting from an empty scene, I created a single Bot in Automatron and set up a procedural walking queue.
2. Then a created the ground plane and put a noise modifier to displace the ground.
3. Then I created a plane object to serve as the scatter guide for the crowd.
4. Then I ran my custom script that...
5. runs the procedural walking queue.
6. applies Secondary Mojo to the hips to smooth out the animation.
7. adds a point_cache modifier and records the skin animation to disc.
8. makes a snapshot of the skin and applies the point_cache
9. The starting spot of the procedural walking queue is moved to a new location on the scatter guide and the process is repeated for each vert of the guide object.
Sit back and watch the script do it's thing, then render.