Mash flight>attractor problem: cant use more than one attractor

Gerardvok Fin Design

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Sep 14, 2016, 1:32:47 AM9/14/16

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Hi All

I'm digging into Mash's flight feature and have hit a hurdle. I have two animated locators in the scene and want them to both act as attractor objects. the UI has a list that you can add multiple transforms to but it seems that only one (the last one added) seems to work. Has anyone else come across this (maya 2017) ?

Thx.

Gerard.

Gerardvok Fin Design

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Sep 15, 2016, 11:33:18 PM9/15/16

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Can anyone shed any light on this or even just confirm the issue? I'm sort of stuck. (Ian W.?)
Thx.

Gerard.

Ian Waters

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Sep 16, 2016, 6:08:22 AM9/16/16

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Hey Gerard,

Sorry for the delay, I’m mad busy at the moment. Sadly it looks like you’ve found a bug - and I can’t see an obvious workaround, I’m really sorry about that.

Are you trying to split the Flight network between two attractors?

I’ll get it logged and fixed in a service pack.

Best,

Ian

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Gerardvok Fin Design

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Sep 20, 2016, 3:06:01 AM9/20/16

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Hi Ian. Thanks for the reply. Yes I'm trying animate a number of alien ships to chase a helicopter. I need to vary the flight path of the ships - ro randomise them a little) so that they don't follow the first attractor so perfectly. I need to add a little complexity into their flight path as they chase and torment the chopper. Can you suggest other approaches? I'm going to take a look at preditor/prey controls but I thought these needed attractors.

cheers.

Gerard

Ian Waters

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Sep 21, 2016, 11:18:49 AM9/21/16

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Hey Gerard,

I’ve done a tutorial (I’ll put it on YouTube soon) about Predator Prey, it’s working fine in 2017.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r5bz4hcrm6qjeat/Flight%20-%20Predator%20Prey.mp4?dl=0

Another approach would be adding a Signal node to add some noise to the motion - remember to then add an orient node (velocity mode) so that the ships point in their direction of travel.