Vertex Animation Toolset, crowd rendering

[Hethger]

@Robert.Andersson

Thanks!
I will give it a try
Do you have any good ideas on how to spawn out of the animated crowd into the stands?

I have something similar to that in the Content Examples of the plugin where 4200 animated mannequin instances are spawn inside a volume on begin play.

This is done just using 1 Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh Component, and calling the “Add Instance World Space” function through blueprint.

A simple setup could be to have a bunch of sockets in the Stand model and when calling the Add Instance function you pipe in the transform of a random socket into the instance’s transform.

Cheers.