Boids Scene Animator

[powerpop]

this is my next animator in production - i made one a while ago for flatland so i can just port it over - it takes a collection of nodes and makes they fly or swim in a flocking pattern - after i get it working i want to make it so you can limit the axis - that way you could also have flocking ground characters who cannot move in the y direction

does anyone know of a fish or bird animated model i can borrow? i did a search on all the sites i know and only found one (on squid but it costs $50) - it would be fun to make an aquarium!

[saigumi]

As long as you don't sell the models, this place has a ton of fish, plants and a few insects in 3DS that are free for usage.

http://www.toucan.co.jp/indexE.html

[powerpop]

that's great! too bad the animations dont come with the 3ds model - you have to buy those on turbosquid - but i can use the fish model as is and maybe give a go at animating it in milkshape

[saigumi]

Doing a search on "boids mesh" on google had some interesting results. One guy did his birds in 4 Microsoft .X meshes.

1 For the head, 1 for left wing, 1 for right wing, 1 for body. He then coded in all the animations for the bird and just bound all the pieces together using parent/child relations.

[Jeremy]

Here is a simple animated fish if you want to use it

http://www.disecta.net/downloads/fish.ms3d

[qwe]

hey powerpop, when you finish that could you email it to me? (the flocking algorithm, not the model) I'm doing something similar and am interested in how other people do it.

[master_zion]

im tryn to coverting the source "XBOIDS" to use irrlicht...
someone want help?

here the source:
http://www.supernovagames.com.br/irrlicht/irrboids.zip