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RailClone => RailClone Pro (*) => Topic started by: MN3180 on October 20, 2014, 06:55:22 PM

Title: Random offset of animation
Post by: MN3180 on October 20, 2014, 06:55:22 PM

Hi

I need to create an animated crowed for a football stadium. So I have started with your football stadium scene created in Railclone, I have switched the people for my own, these have a 260 frame looping point cache animation. I would like to add a random offset to the animation for each person in the crowd. Is this possible?

Many thanks, Dan

Title: Re: Random offset of animation
Post by: Paul Roberts on October 20, 2014, 08:04:48 PM

Hi Dan,

Unfortunately there is not currently a way to randomise animations using only RailClone. However, I notice you have posted in the Forest Pack forum, so I would recommend using Forest Pack for the crowd and RailClone for the seating and other stadium elements.

Forest pack will enable you randomly select from a series of time offsets, you can find some information about this in the documentation (http://docs.itoosoft.com/display/FORESTPACK/Animation) and the Windy Grass tutorial (http://www.itoosoft.com/tutorials/tutorial_grass.php).

If you would like to ensure that the crowd created with Forest Pack aligns to the seating created in RailClone then you can create triangular markers with a RailClone object that are then used to place and align characters using Forest Pack. This post (http://forum.itoosoft.com/index.php?topic=2063.msg7605#msg7605) describes how to do this and includes a scene file you can download and check out.

I hope that helps, please let me know if you have further questions about this technique or have other questions about using Forest Pack and RailClone together.

Cheers,

Paul