Hi guys!

I've made some real progress with my herding simulation, but now we need to fix the avoidance problem.

The Crowd Solver has the built in avoidance based on pscale; but since my characters are longer than they are wide it doesn't really work for avoiding one another.



Does anyone have a technique to help space characters apart (AND keep them apart) based on their bounding area or something similar?

As always, a big thanks for any help!

I should add that I have Left and Right turn animations that I can use with triggers/fuzzy logic to help drive the cows more elegantly away from each other.

I'm running into that same issue too. What I've done for now is have them do a pcopen lookup of their neighbors and slow down if they are within a certain distance and if there is a certain amount of neighbors near them. Also, I have a flow field that they follow. It helps but there are still issues. Still, I hope to hear if anyone else has a solution to this.

If we tried simplifying the concept to this:

1. every agent has a bounding box
   
2. see if this bbox intersects (or is going to intersect) another bbox (find the neighbors!)
   
3. if it does, push the agent particle away from it's intersecting neighbor
   

The POP Steer Avoid, POP Steer Cohesion, and POP Steer Separate forces work somewhat in this manner, but they're mostly limited to a spherical/radial distance from the agent source point/particle. Though, I really dig the Field of View option, it's not working for me.

primfind() was suggested to me for this task; but I don't think it works on packed agents/primitives?