Curve Crowd¶

Curve Crowd is geometry node based generator that distributes humaniq assets on curve. It is spawned using engon Asset Browser, you can filter by Geometry Nodes filter. Or you can use Blender's Native Asset Browser

Spawning¶

You can either click the button under the asset preview, or you can click the small arrow next to the name and select Draw Geometry Nodes option. This will allow you to draw new Curve Crowd directly on your scene meshes surfaces.

Curve Crowd Properties Panel¶

To modify Curve Crowd, head over polygoniq n-panel or go to the object modifiers Make sure your Curve Crowd object is selected. Below is a quick explanation of each setting available in the panel.

Curve Crowd Properties

Settings¶

Seed¶

Different random variation of distribution, scale, rotation and color

Humans Collection¶

Blender collection of humaniq assets that will be used for scattering

Humans Collection

Snap Object¶

Mesh object that can be used to snap assets to the ground.

Snap Collection¶

Same as snap object, but is a collection that supports multiple objects, we recommend using object if possible for performance reasons as all objects in collection need to be realized to calculate snap points.

Snap Direction¶

Switch which way should the assets snap.

Collision Collection¶

Collection of objects where spawning of assets will be disabled, useful for example for benches, lamp posts, etc...

Collision Radius¶

How far from the collision collection objects can people spawn

Width¶

How wide should the strip of people on the curve be, use very small number if you want for example line for shopping and bigger value if you want to cover entire street.

Distance Min¶

How close should the people be, smaller the number, more dense crowd. Beware that at very small distance there will be clipping happening between assets.

Density¶

Masking of assets, should be used for natural distribution of empty spaces in crowd.

Random Rotation¶

When 0 all assets face defined direction, when 1 all asset get random rotation between 0 and 360 degrees.

Random Scale¶

Make people scale more randomized, the scale is in range 0.9 to 1.1 to keep results realistic.

Random Color¶

All humaniq people assets have masks for upper and lower clothing, this slider will add random color and brightness to clothes.

Random Color Seed¶

Separate seed to cycle just random color.

Direction¶

One Direction - all people face the direction of the curve tangent
Two Directions (in lanes) - people the left of the curve face opposite direction than people on the right
Two Directions (random) - people face randomly either direction of the curve or are rotated 180 degrees.

Switch Direction¶

Flip which direction people face by 180 degrees.