MMST 3ds Max Class Blog

3ds Max 2014 introduced Populate, a parametric crowd generating tool for creating animated crowds.  Its best used for showing traffic patterns and creating human props in the background.  But what if you want the crowd to be the actor?  i.e. flocking, armies on the move, sports teams?  These few Crowd Fx videos from Autodesk  demonstrate the great control afforded by this tool.  Here's the first of three.  You can pick up the rest on YouTube.