Simple walking people needed to populate architectural visualisation

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Hi,

We are building a virtual architectural simulation to visualize how the future building will look like and function.
The user will be walking around as in first person game.
The user will control the view by Natural User Interface - we have build in Kinect functionality to it and
also the user will be able to control the view using gamepad and keyboard as standard solutions.

We have build the whole building with the surroundings in UE4 but we are struggling with populating the scene with people with simple walking movements, to give an idea that this is a busy place and not a “ghost city” with no people in it.

Can anybody help us to find the best way how to do it - there is no need for complicated movement animations, the people should just wonder around or stand in groups or sit on benches

Maybe you know where we can find such a think to buy as an ready made assets.

Or maybe you know where we could find somebody with skills to do it for us - it would be a paid
we have already placed a post here

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?50064-CONTRACT-FREELANCE-realistic-people-crowd-and-cars-animation-implementation-UE4

but no response as yet

please help

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you’ll need characters with animations and this is the simplest way to have characters move around within a Navmesh.

You can get more realistic results with target points and using behaviour trees.
let me know if i can help farther.

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For your actual characters maybe have a look at the mixamo stuff that’s in the market place?

Or maybe makehuman(.org) but that would require someone who could animate, and probably in Blender because that’s the only export option from makehuman that ends up with a decent rig.

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If you’re using 3Dsmax, check out Populate. It’s built into max since I think 2013. It’s designed exactly for what you need. You can draw guides and simulate in max, then get a script on Scriptspot to bake down the resulting animations and export to Unreal. I used to work in arch viz so this has me curious. I’ll take a better look when I’m at my pc. Good luck.

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Hi
I’ve made this very easy to use Ai BluePrint that can be used for any character. is this the sort if thing you’re looking for?

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ha, i should really have put some hand rails on the staircase

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thanks ! this exactly what we are looking for

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thanks very much for this lead - we have just set up our indie plan mixamo - looks very good!
thanks again!

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, I can’t find any direct contact to your profile - could please give me some email or any other way how can I contact you directly so we can discuss this further - thanks in advance

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thanks - message on the way