Tutorial callout for boids

Support Particles and Physics Simulations
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Hi all. Are all the boids functions hooked up and working in 2.6? Fuzzy vs random vs average and the slider beside seems to make little difference and I cannot work out the friend enemy settings in the relations panel at all.
I am after that classic swarm of swallows effect and cannot get there easily without just driving a bunch of locators with pos and neg values through the flock. is there a way to make the boids settings work?

Thanks for any advice,
Glenn

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Hi all. I’m after any tuts or docs that explain the way boids work in 2.6, particularly the enemy friend and fuzzy logic stuff. I’m having a hard time finding anything helpful that isn’t from 2.4 or earlier.

Thanks for any help.
Glenn

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I’m having a hard time finding anything helpful that isn’t from 2.4 or earlier.
Really ? Have you tried google or youtube, there are numerous hits for boid tutorials in 2.6
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2011/02/24/intro-to-boids-particles/
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=blender+2.6+boids&meta=

Also this should have been posted in the support forum, it is not blender discussion

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Moved from “General Forums > Blender and CG Discussions” to “Support > Particles and Simulations”

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Naturally I have trawled YouTube but it’s only good for basic setups which are pretty obvious. I want to understand all of the other facets of boids like the friend enemy settings and how the different “fuzzy logic” vs “random” evaluations work. I’m after a real discussion on these as modifying them and playing with the sliders for them seems to yield little discernible difference.

Glenn