How to Animate a Battle in Blender
Learn how to simulate a battle using a particle system to instance characters.
John Mervin writes:How do you animate literally thousands of characters? pros use software like MASSIVE, but can it be done right in blender?
This intermediate tutorial with show you a hack to get to generate a battle scene with pars of characters fighting each other on a battlefield. is it perfect? no, but with some work, you could get amazing results. please feel free to comment below. enjoy!
-John
this is awesome. but no combining it with boids particles?
You certainly could! Perhaps for making some soldiers run around instead of being fixed in place.
Great idea!
would be cool if we could have them using a walkcycle while running, and then some fighting animations and finally a dieing animation. but i fear that’s not possible with the boids :)
jajajajaj you have the humour of regular show, eggcellent tutorial!!
Haha! Thanks!
this is an awesome tutorial! what are boid particles though?
Boid particles are what I briefly mention in the beginning of the video. Basically it’s like an “individual” particle simulator (a crowd simulator) it’s a bit limited, but it can do some interesting things.
ah, ok