animating people wandering in a room

[dellatails]

Hi farshizzo, thanks a lot for these helpful tips And it looks that Vizard provides some avatar models that I can use, so maybe I'll just build the room in Maya and load it. One more question, is there anyway that I can generate a set of walking paths (randomly would be more desirable) for each avatar instead of specifying the target locations using "walkto"? Thanks a lot!

Della

[farshizzo]

Hi,

This is very easy to do with Vizard. I've attached some sample code that will have the avatar walk to a random location every time the spacebar is pressed. Let me know if something isn't clear.

import viz
viz.go()

#Initialize environment
viz.clearcolor(viz.GRAY)
viz.add('tut_ground.wrl')
viz.move(0,5,-20)
viz.lookat(0,0,0)

#Create an avatar
avatar = viz.add('female.cfg')

#Create a walk action that will randomly select a location between (-5,-5) and (5,5)
RandomWalkAction = vizact.walkto(vizact.randfloat(-5,5),0,vizact.randfloat(-5,5))

#Add walk action to avatar when spacebar is pressed
vizact.onkeydown(' ',avatar.add,RandomWalkAction)