Simon Milner

I have a very simple test agent: A single body geo plus an optional prop geo


I have an attribute set on all the agents: 'prop_var' which has assigned either a 1 or 0 to all the agents in the Sim.

How would I go about only applying the prop to all agents with an attribute value of 1 for prop_var?

I am trying to create crowd simulations and wondered if it's possible to manually generate sims for crowd from existing anim data?

I have per-frame (or per agent) joint animation generated from another DCC (Massive) which I want to use to instance and render my agents from

is it at all possible to convert the joint anim from another dcc for crowds and apply it onto a crowd of houdini agents?

I can create a matching agent to the hierarchy I made in Massive, I also have a pointcloud of attributes (such as geo variations) and transforms I can use with a crowdsource to position my agents. But I need some way to get the per-agent joint animation from the source sim data

Am I able to manually set agent's joint transforms and then write out to a traditional houdini crowd sim?

Hi
I am reading in the example usdskel asset setup from pixar

I can play the animations on the 3 characters using the original file, but when I switch them to be instanced, then they are just displayed in T-pose and there is no animation.

Is this a known limitation? I am trying to create my own instanced USDSkel based sims but wanted to try and get this basic example working first

I've attached the original and instanced example setups:
Loading HumanFemale.noninstanced.usda does work (anim from frame 100)
Loading HumanFemale.instanced.usda doesnt work

both work in usdview

thanks