Blender Behavioural Simulation

The video has been made with Blender and OpenSteer. The combination of these packages makes it possible to both model and simulate simultaneously in real-time. The actors you see in this video react to the modelling decisions directly while the modelling steps were performed. The video has been entirely made with Free Open Source Software. Please check http://www.thomaskrijnen.com/bbs for all relevant information and downloads.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Blender
• OpenSteer
• Simulation
• Animation
• Behaviour
• People
• Architecture
• Design

[TheMerethir]

Do you code this project on C++ or Python?

[aoThms]

@TheMerethir

Hi, thanks for your interest. The simulation code has been written in C++, based on OpenSteer + an interface has been written in Python to get the simulation results into Blender, a 3d modelling app. Be sure to check out the page mentioned in the description if you're interested and have a look at the sources or try the app yourself.

[TheMerethir]

@aoThms

So the only language I can use to write an interface (in Blender) is Python, right? Sorry for the noob questions, but I have never dealed with it.

[aoThms]

@TheMerethir

That's correct, Blender has a Python API that is documented quite well. Technically I guess it'd also be possible to adjust the blender source code directly, but doubt whether that's more convenient.

[idiomis]

its some probs with the link or site

cool prog anyway

[aoThms]

He thanks :), didn't expect views already. The link should work within a few hours though.

[john81078]

neat little shapes :-)

[alexander256]

Nice clean render and interesting.

[tvdh87]

Goeie shit ouwe ;-) Nee, serieus nice, petje af. Ook die banner op je site, mooie dingen met sfeer enzo.

[BnBGobo]

That's pretty cool. At first I was thinking "what in the world is going on?", but as it went on I can see now how useful this could be in different settings (herds, sidewalk folk, floating rubber ducks in a stream). Nice render btw, good simple tone scheme.