Welcome to the PySwarm Wiki
PySwarm for Carrara is a WINDOWS-based software application specifically designed and written to manipulate and render realistic swarming and other forms of group animation behavior in DAZ3D's Carrara animation scenes.
This Wiki provides the latest information about:
- What PySwarm is and what it can do
- How to download and install the latest public release of PySwarm
- How to use PySwarm (starting with V0.5)
- The latest news and activities on future releases
About PySwarm
If you are a DAZ3D Carrara user ON A WINDOWS SYSTEM developing animation sequences that involve creating realistic swarming or motion animation that involve manipulating many different objects, you should take a look at PySwarm! PySwarm offers a flexible and easy way to quickly animate objects in your scene just by setting a number of different parameters.
Here are some example scenarios PySwarm is being developed to support:
- Bees swarming around a beehive
- Butterflies flying in an open field
- A herd of horses running through a valley
- An army of soldiers marching, but not in precise formation
- Mechanical spiders swarming a futuristic fort
- Predators moving through a large flock of prey (wolves and sheep, barracudas and fish, “bad guy” moving through a crowd of people)
- Two groups of fighter aircraft in close “fur ball” combat
To read more about what PySwarm can do, or to watch some example animation sequences, click here.
can be achieved by loading the PySwarm script into a text editor, selecting the behaviors you wish to simulate, tweaking a few parameters, importing the script into your scene, and rendering the resulting keyframe-based simulation.
An essential feature of PySwarm is that users of the script do NOT have to know how to program in Python to use it. The PySwarm script was engineered in a way that anyone who has Python and the PyCarrara plug-in installed on their computer can, with minimal effort, render complex-looking animation sequences.
In addition, PySwarm makes the entire process of adjusting PySwarm parameters, importing the script, and checking the results extremely fast and efficient. It usually takes only 1-2 minutes to go from PySwarm editing to scrubber verification!
The Latest Release
The latest public release of PySwarm is V0.4.2.
To get more information about how to download and install the necessary software to run this version of PySwarm, click here.
PySwarm Users Guide going online!
Starting with PySwarm V0.5, you will be able to learn all about how to use PySwarm on this WIki.
To get started, click here.
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