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Delegate Helpers

The Crowd system in character studio uses Delegate helper objects as

intermediaries between the crowd simulation and the influenced objects. A

delegate is a non-rendering pyramid-shaped object. Its apex points in the

direction the crowd system uses as “forward” when it moves the delegate

around.

Use one delegate per object to be animated by the crowd system. You can add

delegates one by one, or use any of the standard 3ds Max methods for cloning

objects, including Shift+clone and the Array function. However, the Crowd

object offers a convenient

Scatter Objects on page 4823 function that lets you

clone delegates and distribute the clones over a surface or within a volume,

with options for orientation and scaling.