Miarmy

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Miarmy is a crowd simulation plugin for Autodesk Maya to render scenes consisting of multiple moving software agents, or entities. The plugin is developed by the Hong Kong-based Basefount Software.

Miarmy is used by a number of major studios, including Dexter Digital, Disney Television Animation, Square Enix, Prasad EFX, CGCG Inc., Digital Frontiers, and Iloura.^{[2][3] [4]}

Miarmy Express and Miarmy Professional[]

Miarmy is available in two versions: Express (free) and Professional (paid). Sets of preset agents including models, textures, actions, and PhysX dynamic simulation are available for both versions for the following scenes:^[5]

• Stadium
• Ambient locomotion
• Ancient battle

Miarmy Express has the same feature set as the Professional version; however, its license is limited to non-commercial use and it only allows 100 agents to be rendered.^[6]

Release History[]

• Miarmy was first announced in a post on the AutoDesk forums on June 23, 2011.^[7]
• Miarmy 1.0 (June 22, 2011)^[8]
• Miarmy 1.1 (October 25, 2011)
• Miarmy 1.2 (February 14, 2012)
• Miarmy 1.5 (July 28, 2012)
• Miarmy 1.7 (November 8, 2012)
• Miarmy 2.0 (February 18, 2013)
• Miarmy 2.2 (May 4, 2013)
• Miarmy 2.5 (August 5, 2013)
• Miarmy 2.7 (December 11, 2013)

See also[]

• Crowd simulation
• List of Maya plugins

References[]