Swarming Fun

[beyonder]

Here is a cool video of me testing some Swarming algorithms. They are used for simulating bird, or fish schools.

Here I was thinking of using them for adding things like chickens to my game.

About 1/3 thru the video the leader is activated making all the chickens follow him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ6MpapBNV8

 

[Mithrandir]

Having more chicken never hurts

But aren't you missing separation behaviour?

[arnienet]

very amusing  , is it just for fun or are you thinking of developing it into something?
I've just started some AI for enemies to pursue an avatar, let me know if you need the
calc direction from source point to target point based on x and z (there might be a bug,
but I found a work around).

[beyonder]

thanks

I pretty much got to code doing what I want it to do except for collisions. I'm going to use it for sheep, chickens, and birds.

Here are some birds in flight. I added a 3rd dimension to my algy so that they can fly in space. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co4Q8Gv5s3I

[WEst]

This looks very cool, great work!

[beyonder]

Thanks WEst! Here is one last test of the swarming algorithm.

It's kinda funny! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnzQ6zh9Ijg

[Raul]

@beyonder: The AXE effect 

[WEst]

@beyonder: The AXE effect 

Definitely! XD