How to get a gaggle (or is that only geese?) of ducks to swim towards a common point on the bank. Above is the graph for the Rotation - maximum angle value on the ecosystem. -- Mark

Mark

Oh and notice the one duck on the far right who just HAD to be awkward...

Mark

That's brilliant work. Keep on dabblin' and sharin'. Charles

Charles

Has anyone managed to get this working? Is it possible to save it as a function and post it?

Thanks
Richard

Where is the arc sine in Vue 6?

Quote - Where is the arc sine in Vue 6?

There isn't one (mislabeled in screenshot I suspect).
The node you want is the "Arc Cosine" one, which is a Math node.

OK, I wasnt sure if it was mislabeled or if it was dropped in Vue 6 (edit: makes sense as the output of arccosine is 0 to pi, while arcsine is -pi/2 to pi/2)

Then there is that sentence "plugged into normalizer Y" but what I can do is plug the arc sine into the Y of the Decomposer. Is that a typo too?

Problem is I get some orientation, but only some of closer ones orient right, some of the closer ones orient wrong and the distant ones show strange patterns.

OK, there is something fishy here. First it works only in a 180° angle.

And there seems to be a strange offset. When I make it work at center it works, when setting a 25m offset in the constant the offset in the result is 50m

This is the pattern I get:

I dont know too much about vectors, probably it is intended to only cover 180° correctly. For this I used X instead of Y and 0 instead 0.5 for the rotation adjust. With Y and 0.5 the correctly adjusted instances are on the left.

And I made some more tests, vector offset has to be half the actual position, thats why I always got strange results. Probably a bug in VUE or inherent to the algorithm?!?

actually it is not a factor 2 in distance but whatever, in my scene I had to try until it worked, actually I had to vector was about 20x the position...or maybe I just understand that stuff wrong