Scaling the Actors ...

[Frank1000]

Hi,
I need to scale down the size of the actors of my crowd ... tried it differently but with odd results. Pls share how this works.



Cheers,
Frank

[dwigfor]

What scale are you assuming for your set. It's really tiny. Probably better to scale up your set to fit the characters.. Otherwise you are going to be dealing with very tiny numbers.. like .000125

[Frank1000]

ya true ... people are decimeter per unit and building is meter per unit ... but regardless, still being interested to know how to adjust sizing for crowd actors ... ?

[Rork]

making everything that small might get you into issues with rendering later on.

[julca]

Hello Frank,

You can set this values on the simulation crowd to adjust size and simulation parameters accordingly.
Just copy paste this lines in your script editor (Vbscript) and run, or edit the values ​​manually ;) .

SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Size", 0.1
SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Search_Radius", 1.5
SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Particle_Simulation.Simulate_Collision_Avoidance.Target_Speed", 1.2

SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Initialize_Collision_Avoidance.Far_Interaction_Limit", 5
SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Initialize_Collision_Avoidance.Walls_Interaction_Limit", 5
SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Initialize_Collision_Avoidance.Actor_Thickness", 0.2
SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Initialize_Collision_Avoidance.Max_Deceleration", 2.4
SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Initialize_Collision_Avoidance.Max_Acceleration", 1.7

SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Initialize_Locomotion_Data.Idle_Transition_Duration", 1.2
SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Initialize_Locomotion_Data.Run_Min_Speed", 2.1
SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry.Initialize_Locomotion_Data.Min_Walk_Stride_Scale", 0.03

SetValue "Crowd.Point_Cloud.pointcloud.Particle_Simulation.Goal_Sequencer.Min_Distance", 1

[Frank1000]

Hi Julca,
have tried it, but gives me error

[Frank1000]

ya true, I scaled up the other stuff.

Just for the "know how" factor, I checked into "reference pose" to manually reset the deformers and envelope, but after I scale everything down, then choose Deform > Envelope > Set Reference Poses on the rig (deformers), the character mesh (envelope) jumps back to the original large size it had before scaling, while the rig stays scaled down.

And when I instead "Freeze Scaling", then both jump back to original size ...

Wondering what the right sequence of action would be ?

[julca]

The scale is only done in the Point_Cloud ICE Tree by the value Size (Crowd -> Simulation -> Point_Cloud -> Emit_Evenly_from_Geometry : look at the compound "Emit Evenly from Geometry").

[Frank1000]

thank you