Golaem Crowd 7.3.2 | 93.1 mb
Golaem releases Golaem 7.3.2, the latest version of its crowd simulation and character layout software. The 7 release brings a new Character Layout Tool, including a DCC agnostic nodal editor and more capabilities, as well as a live link to Unreal Engine.
Improvements
- Added an exportAlias attribute in Mesh Asset and Fur Asset nodes of the Character Maker
- Added name based Body Masks for Spine Nodes in the Motion Behavior
- Added name based Body Masks for Spine Nodes in the SyncMotion Behavior
- Added name based Body Masks for Spine Nodes in the Locomotion Behavior
- Rig and Posture Nodes are now placed at ground adaptation height in the Layout Tool
- Added a Cache Frame Activity widget in the Layout Tool Performance Profiler (beta)
- Added a bar graph widget in the Layout Tool Performance Profiler (beta)
Bug fixes
- Fixed overwritten dirmap attribute in the CrowdManagerNode
- Fixed the Attribute Editor of the TrafficGoto Behavior
- Fixed Simulation Cache Library not opening when having an empty library file
- Fixed a crash when refreshing the Simulation Cache Layout Tool
- Fixed attribute editor display in the Simulation Cache Layout Tool
- Fixed a crash when launching the Simulation Cache Library in stand alone mode
- Fixed a crash when exporting Character Geometry File with Fur Asset nodes
- Fixed a crash when using a large number of entities or Emitter Shared Pool Size
- Fixed displacement when using instancing in the Vray rendering plugin
- Fixed object names for expression based shading in the Guerilla rendering plugin
- Fixed error message when using the HeightField mode of the Crowd Rigid Body Node
- Fixed error message when adding a Traffic Behavior before a TrafficGoto Behavior
- Fixed error message when adding an empty fur file or importing xgen fur in the Character Maker
- Fixed Safety Distance conversion with Crowd Unit in the Traffic Behavior
- Fixed Fur File Data update in the Fur Asset Node of the Character Maker
- Fixed Fur loading from Maya Curves (number of curves was 3 times bigger than expected)
- Fixed GCG Character Geometry File import when using relative paths in the Character Maker
- Fixed GCG Character Geometry File export when using root name with namespaces in the Character Maker
- Fixed glmSimulationCacheTool sample not installed in the devkit
- Fixed environment variable replacement in the Simulation Cache Proxy node
- Fixed environment variable replacement when opening a scene with dirmap enabled
API
- Added inCameraFrustum and cameraDistance attributes in the glmSimulationCacheTool command
Golaem releases Golaem 7, the latest version of its crowd simulation and character layout software. It brings a new Character Layout Tool, including a DCC agnostic nodal editor and more capabilities, as well as a live link to Unreal Engine.
A new Character Layout Tool
Born as a retake tool for Golaem simulations, Golaem Layout is now evolving as an independent tool for procedural character layout, enabling artists to easily populate shots by using Population Vignettes they can place in their scene and quickly edit them to fit with the shot direction.
A Population Vignette is similar to a proxy for characters and their animations which can be edited thanks to directable layers such as automatic feet adaptation to the ground, look at, duplicate, controllable geometry and shading variations, animation retiming, IK autorig to retake animation...
Artists can then adapt the scene very easily to frequent changes in directorial intentions or environment changes. For example, taking into account a new ground geometry can be done in one click.
Population Vignettes edits are non destructive, and performed using a new nodal editor which makes it easy to copy edits to others characters, rearrange modifications, test different stacks of modifications and so on. The new Layout architecture also makes it possible to drive edit with locators, or to keyframe their values using the standard Maya tools.
Population Vignettes can be layouted manually or scattered in the scene thanks to the Golaem Population Tool. Thousands of them can be animated in real time without slowing down Maya or making the scene file longer to open.
Golaem Layout has been unanimously acclaimed as a huge time and money saver by all its customers.
Round trip link with Unreal Engine
Golaem introduces a new plugin for Unreal Engine which enables loading Population Vignettes and layout them.
Unreal scenes can be refreshed instantly to take modifications done in Maya, and the Layout modifications can be edited directly in Unreal, and reloaded in Maya.
By avoiding things such as baking alembic caches and loading them in Unreal Engine, which wastes time and is always a pain to keep things in sync, this new workflow really facilitates the work of the team. It has already been used efficiently in production by Waterproof Studios and IGG Inc. for their in-game cinematics.
This new plugin takes advantage of Golaem C++/Python APIs which allows to quickly load Golaem simulation caches and layout in any platform (one of Golaem customers has implemented an Isotropix Clarisse integration in a few weeks). It also embeds the new Golaem Layout editor, which is independent from Maya, making it possible to use in any platform which supports Python.
The Unreal plugin source code is now available to customers so that they can compile their own Unreal Engine version with it, and contribute their developments.
Golaem develops artist-friendly tools to animate digital characters. Integrated in Autodesk Maya, Golaem makes it fast and affordable to populate worlds with directable digital characters, from a few to thousands. Artists from all over the globe use Golaem to bring life to commercials, episodic productions, feature films and games.
Product: Golaem Crowd
Version: 7.3.2
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : Language: english
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Size: 93.1 mb
Platforms
- Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 or 8.1, Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
Graphics
- OpenGL 3.3 (2010) or above
Supported DCCs
- Autodesk Maya 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- Autodesk 3ds Max 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- Foundry Katana 3.X
- Unreal Engine 4.24 (4.23 on demand)
- SideFx Houdini 17.5, 18.0.348 and above
Supported Rendering Engines
- Arnold - Mtoa 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 / KtoA 2.X
- V-Ray - For Maya 4.0X, 4.1X, 4.3X / For 3ds Max 4.30
- Renderman - For Maya 22.4, 22.5 / For Katana 22.4, 22.5
- Redshift - For Maya 2.6.49, 2.6.5X / For Katana 2.6.51
- USD (beta) - Standalone 0.19.11 / For Houdini 18 / For Katana 3.5
- Guerilla Render 2.1, 2.2
Also supported (but must be manually installed):
- Arnold - Mtoa 4.0.1, 4.0.2 / KtoA 3.0
- V-Ray - For Maya 3.6X
- Renderman - For Maya 23.0 / For Katana 23.0
- Redshift - For Maya 2.6.14-48
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