Re: is Behavior a good option?

[Francois Lord <xsilist(at)francoislord.com>]

That's the biggest difference between Massibe and Behavior.
In Behavior, you must script EVERYTHING. The animation blending is 
automatic though.
In Massive, you don't script anything, but you must provide all the 
transition animations.

As Kim said, the whole process of exporting to Behavior, developing the 
simulation, exporting to mi2 files and rendering takes a lot of work. 
Once it's done and you are familiar with it, you can do it quite easily 
and fast. But if you do it only once a year, you forget parts of it and 
you must do it all over again.


Vince Fortin wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
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