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blender predator prey simulation with boids particle system

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Uploaded by on Mar 31, 2008

quick testrender of boid particles animation, not perfect but fun. I have used an emitter mesh that produced 2000 particles (prey birds) and an emitter mesh that produced 2 particles (predator birds). In addition there's an invisible attractor mesh that interacts with the boids. No paths used, just free interaction. Each recalculation results in a completely diffrent predator prey interaction. Attached a rigged bird mesh to the prey particles and a rigged predator mesh to the predator particles.

start here for a tutorial: http://users.xplornet.com/~gimble/blender/tutorials/jahka/boids/boids.htm

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  • wat song is this?!?! i will subscribe to whomever reply!!!!!

  • @MrYamamama

    Louis Armstrong, What a wonderful world! :)

  • If you know, what are the specs of the computer you used to make this? I'm thinking of building a computer this summer to do these sorts of things, but I'm not sure what sort of graphics/processor I should include in the build.

  • @xcpunisher I did the animation a while ago, the predators are slightly more elaborate but still low poly mesh. It took a few minutes to calculate the animation, and then a while to render (10-20min.). Had a slow Amd dualcore with 2gb ram and a basic video card. Obviously the faster the better.. Depends on the money

    you're willing to pay.. I now have a faster dualcore with 8gb of ram and a gforce 260 videp csrd...

  • thanx :-D

  • Awesome! Are your prey birds flapping their wings at different times? How did you accomplish the offset?

  • thanks! It looks like there was an offset but it's an illusion. there are birds flying on their back which gives flapping the opposite direction. I shaped birds in a way it was impossible to tell if they were flying on their backs or just normal.

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  • Stop feeding it for a while. He'll get hungry eventually.

  • Well, you can't say you didn't try.

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  • @MrYamamama what a wonderful world: Louis Armstrong

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  • Amazing work! It looks awesome!

  • @MrYamamama How can u not know LOL

  • @MrYamamama

    you should read the bar dude.......

  • Very cool boids. I'd like to do something like this.

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