Golaem 6 for Autodesk Maya

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[ #Maya #Crowd #Golaem ]Golaem announces Golaem 6, giving Crowd TDs more access, under the hood of the simulation engine. You can now customize the way your characters perceive and react to their environment, giving them custom Artificial Intelligence capabilities. Other additions include an Emit/Kill behavior, a behavior for Traffic Simulation as well as some improvements on the acclaimed Golaem Layout Tool.

These new features are based on user feedback and requests, Golaem is being used by renowned studios on more and more demanding projects such as Pirates of the Caribbean by Atomic Fiction, Halo Wars 2 by Blur, Hacksaw Ridge by Slate VFX, Captain Underpants by Mikros Image, Game of Thrones... Talk about Stadiums, city streets, battles, creatures, forests, cars... Golaem helps you to populate all your projects!

>> See Also: Golaem Crowd tutorial: Populating a stadium

New Features
•Perception: Customize the way characters are aware of each other
•Channel Operators: Give a brain to your characters
•Customizable Transitions: Build animation state machines
•Emit / Kill behaviors: Summon or dismiss characters at will
•Traffic Behaviors: Add traffic to your virtual cities
•Layout Tool Improvements: Layout or retake your scenes
•Extensibility: Integrate Golaem in your pipeline or build tools around it
•Added a Freeze On Collided mode in the MasterSlave Behavior (eg sticky arrows)
•Added collision support of Apex Cloth Behavior and Crowd Rigid Bodies (max 32 spheres and 32 planes)

Some Improvements
•Support of non-triangulated geometry in the Character Geometry File (gcg)
•Simulation Cache file quantization format attribute in the CrowdManager Node
•Improved performances when using a MEL expression in an Input Channel Operator
•Conversion Factor can be set for Spine / Limbs / Effector nodes in the Character Maker
•New Export Animation In One File Per Entity FBX Mode in the Simulation Exporter
•New Export Animation In One File FBX Mode in the Simulation Exporter
•Added Expression as Target Mode in the Steer and GoTo Behaviors
•Added a Use Kinematic Target option in the Physicalize Behavior
•Added a Use Kinematic Target option in the Crowd Rigid Body node

Some Bug Fixes
•Fixed blendshape deformation computation when controlled by a distant bone
•Fixed mirror animations looks awkward in some specific cases
•Fixed wrong ground adaptation when playing mirror animations
•Fixed the crash that occurs when baking sparse Simulation Caches in FBX or Alembic
•Fixed the crash that occurs when using the Emit and Perception Behaviors


PERCEPTION: CUSTOMIZE THE WAY CHARACTERS ARE AWARE OF EACH OTHER'S

CHANNEL OPERATORS: GIVE A BRAIN TO YOUR CHARACTERS

CUSTOMIZABLE TRANSITIONS: BUILD ANIMATION STATE MACHINES

EMIT / KILL BEHAVIORS: SUMMON OR DISMISS CHARACTERS AT WILL

TRAFFIC BEHAVIORS: ADD TRAFFIC TO YOUR VIRTUAL CITIES

LAYOUT TOOL IMPROVEMENTS: LAYOUT OR RETAKE YOUR SCENES

Check out the documentation release.

Availability

The complete scene population solution Including the Layout Tool cost 7000 € for Permanent License and Support & Upgrade 1750 € per year. There is also a range of rental options.
Visit Golaem's Website for different options.

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[ #Maya #Crowd #Golaem ]Golaem announces Golaem 6, giving Crowd TDs more access, under the hood of the simulation engine. You can now customize the way your characters perceive and react to their environment, giving them custom Artificial Intelligence capabilities. Other additions include an Emit/Kill behavior, a behavior for Traffic Simulation as well as some improvements on the acclaimed Golaem Layout Tool.

These new features are based on user feedback and requests, Golaem is being used by renowned studios on more and more demanding projects such as Pirates of the Caribbean by Atomic Fiction, Halo Wars 2 by Blur, Hacksaw Ridge by Slate VFX, Captain Underpants by Mikros Image, Game of Thrones... Talk about Stadiums, city streets, battles, creatures, forests, cars... Golaem helps you to populate all your projects!

>> See Also: Golaem Crowd tutorial: Populating a stadium

New Features
•Perception: Customize the way characters are aware of each other
•Channel Operators: Give a brain to your characters
•Customizable Transitions: Build animation state machines
•Emit / Kill behaviors: Summon or dismiss characters at will
•Traffic Behaviors: Add traffic to your virtual cities
•Layout Tool Improvements: Layout or retake your scenes
•Extensibility: Integrate Golaem in your pipeline or build tools around it
•Added a Freeze On Collided mode in the MasterSlave Behavior (eg sticky arrows)
•Added collision support of Apex Cloth Behavior and Crowd Rigid Bodies (max 32 spheres and 32 planes)

Some Improvements
•Support of non-triangulated geometry in the Character Geometry File (gcg)
•Simulation Cache file quantization format attribute in the CrowdManager Node
•Improved performances when using a MEL expression in an Input Channel Operator
•Conversion Factor can be set for Spine / Limbs / Effector nodes in the Character Maker
•New Export Animation In One File Per Entity FBX Mode in the Simulation Exporter
•New Export Animation In One File FBX Mode in the Simulation Exporter
•Added Expression as Target Mode in the Steer and GoTo Behaviors
•Added a Use Kinematic Target option in the Physicalize Behavior
•Added a Use Kinematic Target option in the Crowd Rigid Body node

Some Bug Fixes
•Fixed blendshape deformation computation when controlled by a distant bone
•Fixed mirror animations looks awkward in some specific cases
•Fixed wrong ground adaptation when playing mirror animations
•Fixed the crash that occurs when baking sparse Simulation Caches in FBX or Alembic
•Fixed the crash that occurs when using the Emit and Perception Behaviors


PERCEPTION: CUSTOMIZE THE WAY CHARACTERS ARE AWARE OF EACH OTHER'S

CHANNEL OPERATORS: GIVE A BRAIN TO YOUR CHARACTERS

CUSTOMIZABLE TRANSITIONS: BUILD ANIMATION STATE MACHINES

EMIT / KILL BEHAVIORS: SUMMON OR DISMISS CHARACTERS AT WILL

TRAFFIC BEHAVIORS: ADD TRAFFIC TO YOUR VIRTUAL CITIES

LAYOUT TOOL IMPROVEMENTS: LAYOUT OR RETAKE YOUR SCENES

Check out the documentation release.

Availability

The complete scene population solution Including the Layout Tool cost 7000 € for Permanent License and Support & Upgrade 1750 € per year. There is also a range of rental options.
Visit Golaem's Website for different options.

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Golaem Crowd 3.3

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[ #adskMaya #Animation #VFX ]Golaem Crowd 3.3 introduces blend shapes on crowd characters. This new functionality opens the way to a myriad of possibilities, including facial animation, muscles systems, corrective blend shapes...

>> See Also: Download Golaem Crowd Character Pack

Golaem Crowd skeletal animation features have been extensively used by major vfx studios to animate all sorts of characters in their feature films, including spectators, infantry and cavalry made by Milk VFX and Cinesite for Brett Ratner’s Hercules.


With crowds getting closer and closer to the camera, the ability to go beyond skeletal animation is a huge enabler to meet realism needs. Golaem Crowd builds on Maya blend shapes animation tools to let artists create their characters with the tools they know best.

Blend shapes are then read by Golaem Crowd at the same time as skeletal animation, which enables easy synchronization as well as benefiting from most of the functionalities already offered by the Golaem Crowd animation engine: motion blending, start frame and speed randomization…

Golaem in-house artist, Axel Domenger, has taken advantage of the blend shapes support to animate mouths of angry hairy blobs in this demo video


More information please go to golaem.com
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[ #adskMaya #Animation #VFX ]Golaem Crowd 3.3 introduces blend shapes on crowd characters. This new functionality opens the way to a myriad of possibilities, including facial animation, muscles systems, corrective blend shapes...

>> See Also: Download Golaem Crowd Character Pack

Golaem Crowd skeletal animation features have been extensively used by major vfx studios to animate all sorts of characters in their feature films, including spectators, infantry and cavalry made by Milk VFX and Cinesite for Brett Ratner’s Hercules.


With crowds getting closer and closer to the camera, the ability to go beyond skeletal animation is a huge enabler to meet realism needs. Golaem Crowd builds on Maya blend shapes animation tools to let artists create their characters with the tools they know best.

Blend shapes are then read by Golaem Crowd at the same time as skeletal animation, which enables easy synchronization as well as benefiting from most of the functionalities already offered by the Golaem Crowd animation engine: motion blending, start frame and speed randomization…

Golaem in-house artist, Axel Domenger, has taken advantage of the blend shapes support to animate mouths of angry hairy blobs in this demo video


More information please go to golaem.com
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Golaem Crowd 3

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Golaem has announced the latest version of Golaem Crowd, the crowd simulation plugin for Maya is now available

Golaem Crowd is used by an increasing number of studios (including industry leaders like Double Negative or Framestore) to easily give life to commercials, movies, TV shows and games. It recently helped Stargate Digital to create a massive horde of “walkers” for the acclaimed The Walking Dead TV Show. This new update enables artists to simulate any type of character: human, horses, birds, or imaginary creatures…

>> See Also: Download Golaem Crowd Character Pack

Control any type of characters

The new Golaem Crowd Character Maker handles any type of characters: bipeds, quadrupeds and n-peds. It supports any custom skeleton description and has been successfully tested with various industry standards (Human IK, 3DSMax biped, Rocket Box, Daz3D, Pinocchio, Advanced Skeleton…).
The Golaem Crowd Character Maker can also automatically edit your motion capture data and make them cycle perfectly while preserving animation.

Do more with less work

Powered by a revamped animation engine, Golaem Crowd 3.0 helps to save time and work at each step of the production. Because most cumbersome tasks are automated, artists can now focus on what they do best: being creative.
Golaem Crowd procedurally generate new motions by mirroring motions, mixing them together or automatically retargeting them to various character size/morphology, hence dramatically reducing the amount of motions to be produced.
Built-in behaviors automatically choose motions depending on character speed or orientation, adapts feet to the ground (matching closely the ground geometry), or make a character look at a given target or aim at something with a gun.
Last but not least, Golaem Crowd now allows to enable or disable physics simulation at any time, at the character level, or even at limbs level in order to mix physics simulation with animation.

Control birds and fishes with the Flock Behaviors

Together with automatic 3D placement, Golaem Crowd provides new behaviors for controlling flock of birds or school of fishes with unmatched performances: interactive with 10 000 birds and geometry preview. The flock can wander in a given zone, seek targets or flee dangers.

Validate your work before even pressing the render button

To speed up shots creation and validation, Golaem Crowd proposes a new interactive previzualisation of the crowd simulation, including geometry diversity, directly in Maya viewport.

A preview of these features can be seen in the following video, including a previz of a complete scene, as well as Golaem Crowd Customers’ work.

Download

You can ask a free Golaem Crowd 3 for 30 days evaluation here

Golaem has announced the latest version of Golaem Crowd, the crowd simulation plugin for Maya is now available

Golaem Crowd is used by an increasing number of studios (including industry leaders like Double Negative or Framestore) to easily give life to commercials, movies, TV shows and games. It recently helped Stargate Digital to create a massive horde of “walkers” for the acclaimed The Walking Dead TV Show. This new update enables artists to simulate any type of character: human, horses, birds, or imaginary creatures…

>> See Also: Download Golaem Crowd Character Pack

Control any type of characters

The new Golaem Crowd Character Maker handles any type of characters: bipeds, quadrupeds and n-peds. It supports any custom skeleton description and has been successfully tested with various industry standards (Human IK, 3DSMax biped, Rocket Box, Daz3D, Pinocchio, Advanced Skeleton…).
The Golaem Crowd Character Maker can also automatically edit your motion capture data and make them cycle perfectly while preserving animation.

Do more with less work

Powered by a revamped animation engine, Golaem Crowd 3.0 helps to save time and work at each step of the production. Because most cumbersome tasks are automated, artists can now focus on what they do best: being creative.
Golaem Crowd procedurally generate new motions by mirroring motions, mixing them together or automatically retargeting them to various character size/morphology, hence dramatically reducing the amount of motions to be produced.
Built-in behaviors automatically choose motions depending on character speed or orientation, adapts feet to the ground (matching closely the ground geometry), or make a character look at a given target or aim at something with a gun.
Last but not least, Golaem Crowd now allows to enable or disable physics simulation at any time, at the character level, or even at limbs level in order to mix physics simulation with animation.

Control birds and fishes with the Flock Behaviors

Together with automatic 3D placement, Golaem Crowd provides new behaviors for controlling flock of birds or school of fishes with unmatched performances: interactive with 10 000 birds and geometry preview. The flock can wander in a given zone, seek targets or flee dangers.

Validate your work before even pressing the render button

To speed up shots creation and validation, Golaem Crowd proposes a new interactive previzualisation of the crowd simulation, including geometry diversity, directly in Maya viewport.

A preview of these features can be seen in the following video, including a previz of a complete scene, as well as Golaem Crowd Customers’ work.

Download

You can ask a free Golaem Crowd 3 for 30 days evaluation here

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