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08-12-2006, 03:47 PM
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| Massive - Agent based crowd control AI I first heard of it in the Special (Extended) Edition DVDs for Lord of the Rings. The software was actually built for those movies. Setting aside the movie and animation purpose, what stands out is how the AI operates. There's no description of mine that could synthetise it better than these two paragraphs: Quote:
I understand this is a commercial application. But It's absolutely incredible the power of this AI. Just so that you have an idea, the two major battles in LotR (Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields) where totally rendered with Massive on those long distance shots you see. Pelennor Fields had 350,000 agents on some of the shots. I just wished to share this for those of you who could possibly not know about about it. EDIT: Do check their showcase for amazing examples ofwhat can be done. Again abstract yourself from the rendering. What is amazing in this product is definitely the AI. What you are looking at is hundreds, thousands and tens of thousand individual agents each with it's own AI brain reacting nder crowd situations.
__________________ Originally Posted by brewbuck: Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster. Last edited by Mario F.; 08-12-2006 at 04:07 PM. | |
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08-14-2006, 01:25 PM
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| The limit on machine specs is suspect. Why only Quadro FX for video card?
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08-14-2006, 03:35 PM
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| I suspect most of the rendering should be done outside Massive. The integration with Maya is very strong according with their words. However, there's this paragraph from their FAQ for those chosing to render from Massive Quote:
__________________ Originally Posted by brewbuck: Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster. | |
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08-19-2006, 11:23 PM
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| $17,999 USD No AI program is worth that... |
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08-20-2006, 03:41 PM
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| Are you kidding? Given the costs of commercial licenses for this stuff these days, that's a steal.
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