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April 27 2006,
After finishing a big job making a 3d Diaper for a Pampers commercial, I’m back at finishing Automatron.
After a little experimentation, I have decided to go ahead and add the crowd system to version 1. I started writing a few functions to see if I could make it work, and things went really well.
The crowd system is not a 10s of thousands of characters type of system, more like a couple of hundred of characters, although you could probably crank it up if you have the time. The system takes one Automatron Bot, a selection set of guide objects, and a character skin and turns out a max scene with point cached character skins all running around a ground mesh. Take a look in the gallery to see some examples , like this one.