Maybe some of you remember my 1000 spiders doing collision avoiding and stuff.
Forget it! It was slow as hell.
I started playing around with it today and made a lite c version that is able to handle 10000 spiders at once.
It is faaaaaar from perfect right now but you can play around with it.
With space you create 1000 spiders.
You move the cam with wasd + mouse.
F11 for stats

Compile main.c for a huge level with blocks in the spiders way (compiling the pathfinding data may take a while so be patient)

mainb.c is a small level where you can test a smaller amount of spiders.

So here is the download link:
Click me

Spiders don't move sometimes, and they even go throw the walls, but all other ways looks good

I know these bugs.
I dont know yet why they move sometimes through walls but the issue that they sometimes stop moving will be fixed soon.

do you have a A6 version of this by any chance? i dont remeber if it was offered last time. i remeber running the last demo though.

Hm. About the moving through walls issue: Maybe visualize what each spider is doing somehow (draw_line3d maybe?), like velocity, direction to goal, etc.

I dunno. It's a cool idea and it looks nice, but you should really work on them going through blocks. Kinda... Destroys the feeling.

And, as with the A6 version, I still think they should crawl up walls. But that's a huge chunk of work.

Keep it up!

there was an A6 version, right?

i just looked at it. i do have it, but was the code ever released?

nice nice, have got about 25 - 50 fps with a NV GTS250 and the same with a NV 7300LE

The c-script code wasnt released. I can give it to you but i think i wont be very handy.
If you guys take a look at the pathpoint.c you'll see that every waypoint traces to all the others. And if you draw the connections there are some traces that go through blocks and i dont know why =( (yet)
but i will work on it.

i would like it anyway if you dont mind. i like the script. its very cool. Thanks!