Monday, September 23rd, 2024Posted by Jim ThackerPeople Going Places is a free Blender crowds add-onhtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"CG artist and tools developer Jules Mabon aka Ogjee has released People Going Places, a free Blender crowds add-on.The lightweight Geometry Nodes setup populates a ground mesh with low-poly animated characters to generate background crowds for animation or motion graphics work.A quick way to add background crowds to Blender scenesPeople Going Places provides a quick way to add animated crowds to the background of shots.Users simply provide a ground mesh for the crowd characters to navigate, and select the areas on its surface in which they should walk, with the add-on filling them with movement paths.It is possible to adjust the result using parameters to control the number of crowd characters, their movement speed, and the spacing and distribution of the paths.For larger crowds, it is possible to bake the node graph to improve real-time performance.Suited to less demanding shotsAccording to Mabon, the model does not feature collisions between people and is shipped with low poly characters with simplistic animations, so it is mostly suited for distant crowds.We arent sure if its possible to get crowds to navigate uneven terrain: the demo shows only flat and angled surfaces, and the characters tend to slide when navigating ramps.The add-on comes with basic procedural characters, but Mabon provides a paid pack of 32 textured low-poly animated characters as an add-on.Price and system requirementsProcedural Crowds is compatible with Blender 4.2. The base add-on is a free download, while the pack of low-poly 3D characters costs 2.Download People Going Places from the Ogjee Gumroad store(Enter a figure of 0 to download the add-on for free, or add a voluntary tip)Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.Latest NewsAlexey Vanzhula releases Modeler 2025 for HoudiniMajor update to the popular hard-surface modeling toolkit for Houdini reworks the interface, workflow, and adds new retopology tools.Monday, September 23rd, 2024People Going Places is a free Blender crowds add-onLightweight Geometry Nodes setup provides a quick way to add background crowds to scenes for animation or motion graphics work.Monday, September 23rd, 2024How to create facial blendshapes using photogrammetryNew Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to process 3D scans of an actor for use in a FACS-based facial animation rig in Maya.Sunday, September 22nd, 2024Otoy releases OctaneRender 2024.1Discover the new features in the latest version of the GPU renderer - and which features are now scheduled for future releases.Saturday, September 21st, 2024Unity previews its roadmap for Unity 6.1 and beyondCheck out the new features due in the game engine in 2025, including updates to rendering, world building and animation.Friday, September 20th, 2024How Unity created Time Ghost, its beautiful Unity 6 tech demoDiscover how the new graphics and simulation features in Unity 6 were used to create the demo, which runs in real time on a GeForce 4090 GPU.Friday, September 20th, 2024More NewsLightWave Digital releases LightWave 2024.1Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 10.1Epic is making Megascans free to all - but only until the end of 2024Epic Games to launch its Fab marketplace in October 2024Tutorial: Creating Efficient Digital Doubles for VFXKiri Engine 3.10 and 3.11 are outMaxon releases Red Giant 2025Check out the new machine learning tools in Silhouette 2024.5Unity scraps controversial Runtime Fee but raises pricesZibraVDB: real-time volumetric rendering in virtual productionSitni Sati releases FumeFX 6.5 for 3ds MaxNekki releases Cascadeur 2024.2Older Posts