VH_Flocking - a flocking simulator for Nuke particles.
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This is a Particle node for Nuke 6.3 which simulates flocking behaviour.
It applies a few simple rules to each particle and it's from the combination of
these that the flocking behaviour emerges:
1. Each particles will try to move towards the centre of the set of particles.
2. All particles will try to remain at least a small distance away from all
other particles.
3. Particles will try to match the velocity of all the other particles.
These are the basic rules of a flocking system. We also have the following
extra rules, to make it a bit more controllable:
4. The particles will steer towards a common location.
5. Particles will try to avoid certain other locations.
6. There's an upper limit to the speed that particles can travel at.
Compiling
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Linux
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- Edit the Makefile:
- change the NUKE_VERSION_MAJOR and NUKE_VERSION_MINOR variables to match the
version of Nuke that you're compiling against.
- change the path on line 12 to match the root of your Nuke install.
- Run make:
OSTYPE=linux-gnu make dirs
OSTYPE=linux-gnu make
The 'make dirs' command is only needed the first time you build the plugin;
it creates the 'build' and 'dist' directories that will contain the
intermediate files and the final plugin respectively.
Mac
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- Edit the Makefile:
- change the NUKE_VERSION_MAJOR and NUKE_VERSION_MINOR variables to match the
version of Nuke that you're compiling against.
- change the path on line 16 to match the root of your Nuke install.
- Run make:
make dirs
make
The 'make dirs' command is only needed the first time you build the plugin;
it creates the 'build' and 'dist' directories that will contain the
intermediate files and the final plugin respectively.
Windows
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No idea, sorry. I've only tried building on Mac and Linux. Nuke ships with a
sample project for Visual Studio which may be enough to get you started.
Contact
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If you have any questions, feedback or requests, feel free to email me:
Vilya Harvey
<vilya.harvey@gmail.com>