How do I fill stadium seats with animated characters?

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Hi all,

I have a scene of a tennis court that has around 400 empty seats.
I’m a complete beginner when it comes to Unreal but have experience in Blender etc.

In Blender, I have the same scene with a collection of characters that take the position of every chair in the scene using geometry nodes. (The render time in Blender is too ridiculous).

How can I use Unreal’s tools to replicate this scenario?
In essence, I want to fill up all the seats in the tennis court with a selection of animated characters.

I’ve looked at tools like Niagara, MassAI, Mass Crowd, etc but Unreal is very complicated…

Hope someone can help!

Thanks,

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hi,
must be your lucky day… there is a new tutorial about baking animation to texture :slight_smile:

this should fill your stadium…

hope it helps you :slight_smile:

cheers :vulcan_salute:

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Not that there is anything bad with that, but id suggest an alembic geometry cache over it.
They work faster/better than the shaders…

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I did have a look at the AnimToTexture but could not figure it out…
Guess I’ll give it another go, I was hoping there was a more “blender-like” solution.

Thanks!

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UE5 has support for crowd simulations and this would be a good starting point.

Just look for other tutorials on Youtub for UE5