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General Introduction

Imagine that Drive Shell feature allows us edit the agents after making agent cache. Usually we use it to fix some agents translate or rotate, and hide some error agents.

Suppose we've already got the good simulation and made the agent cache , but especially we had did the dynamic simulation. But for some reasons , we have to make a small fix on some very limited and specific agents. At this time, While we really don't want to re-make the simulation cache at all and want to do directly edit on the cached agents. because that these fixes (like move some agent left/right or remove some agents) are too small to re-make the entire cache, especially we had did the dynamic simulation, it would be again because it's time-consuming and risk to redo the simulation againmay take some risk. At this time the Drive Shell feature can help.

Instructions

Make agent cache for the scene and enable the cache.

^{We can only use this feature after Caching Agents}

Select the agent(s) you want to edit and click "ctrl + g", then you can notice that we created a group (transform) (or we can call it a shell) node for these agents, then .

Then you can edit this group, like translate, rotate or hide as your wish. Since the agents are in child space of the group, they will move along with it.

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^{select some agents}

_{Maya group control the agents transform}

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_{Notie: once you de-place your agents and re-place again, or re-open this file, this group relationship will be forgotten and you cannot save your edit it any more.}

Click Miarmy Cache Tools > "Record Drive Shell" button, we can make our maya scene remember the relationship between your agents and the group node. The relationship will be stored at McdGlobal node, and you can check it by some simplest script code.

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