Softimage Crowd FX – 3D Crowd Modelling

With our recent post on Populate in 3D Max 2014 we thought we would take a quick look at Crowd FX in Softimage. CrowdFX is part of the Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) of Softimage allowing rapid pedestrian and stadium style simulations.

Below is a sample movie created using two crowd emitters with default collision detection. Using 100 agents the model is a simple cross path system but provides a glimpse of the nature of the output:

The modelling system is notably simpler to the current 3D Max Crowd/Delegate system, it will be interesting to see how it compares to Populate…