Re: is Behavior a good option?

["Vince Fortin" <vfortin(at)gmail.com>]

Hello, at work we have a Behavior DVD with quite a lot of video tutorials. It's a very good overview of Behavior's capabilities.
Try putting your hands on it by contacting Softimage, I think they used to package it with XSI v5 or something.

I believe that what you want to do can be done easily in Behavior, just plan some time for reading the tuts about how to threat your rig and clips beforehand.
Now this is kind of a useless rant but here goes: there is a lack of design in this app that makes it bothersome to people who expect to see Softimage's intuitive workflow in Behavior. You'll quickly realize that you have to script every single task in order to reach a reasonable production workflow and that includes basic stuff like synchronizing your camera animation with your scene. That said the possibilities are almost endless. The animation blending features are nice and the custom pipeline for rendering directly in MR is super fast but you can still export your resulting animation to XSI.

As others said, do not to use 2.11 and make sure to check out these tools: http://www.inframez.com/3d_behaviortools_content.htm

Enjoy!

Vincent

On Nov 27, 2007 6:30 PM, Agedito <mislistas(at)agedito.com> wrote:

Hello everybody

 

Now at my work I have to make some crowd simulations (a few thousands of characters) with on-place animation (no walking).

I don't know if uses behavior or make my own crowd tools (I have experiences on smaller crowds and scripting and plugin developed).

 

My dude is because I don't find a lot of information on Softimage site.

Is Behavior deprecated by Softimage? Is Behavior use by studios on production?

 

My dude is not about this specific work (every work is a world) , my dude is if Behavior is a good tool to learn.

 

Thanks in advanced