Just Boids | Useless Game Dev

Boids are cool! I like seeing flocks of birds in video games, or schools of fishes swimming around. Join me in attempting to not thermal throttle my computer while putting as many "bird-oids" on screen!

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[hexeldev]

I actually met Craig (the inventor of Boids) last week. He's a cool guy, 70, and still doing cool stuff. Recently on entities camouflaging themselves using a GAN

[kalelsoffspring]

The intro is perfect for your channel name. "Games that have extra CPU cycles" and wanting to use them is a pretty good definition for "useless", but it's also amazing!!!

[AdrianMRyan]

This is incredibly not-useless for the project I'm currently working on. 

Also, glad to see a new video! Was hoping we'd see you back soon.

[benjoe]

🎵Two boids, chillin' in the hot tub, 5 feet apart because🎵...the separation has already been implemented.

[billal]

You get a lot of info across in a short time in a way that isn't overwhelming. Doing Sebastian Lague's landmass generator series right now and think I'll follow this one hands-on next. Cheers!

[Incernion]

I was hoping you'd cover this topic, boids are so simple in nature but I love them so much!

[charlvanniekerk]

I absolutely love the optimization quad data structure and how cleverly you managed to increase performance. Thank you for the wonderful video!

[chikato]

Ooooh crap I've been working on my own version of this but literally got Unity to BSOD my computer... This is a great guide that will correct my ship! Thanks! Subbed and put on alerts.

[redearth]

I love how these behaviors can arise from a very simple set of rules

[redumptious]

The 'woosh' always makes me smile.
Great stuff as always

[benjoe]

I feel like those birds need a bit stronger forces on the separation rule...they were colliding a lot in the center. But that's just settings.
Cool video as always! And thanks for showing off the new Unity features.

[sempersolus]

I supposedly have a master's in complexity. I don't know half the crap you do. This channel totally helps.

EDIT: I can confirm the English word is indeed "octant".

[chrissugg]

You should have them speed up and slow down as well as steer, and an animation of flapping/gliding when they do this or when they gain/lose altitude. You could also have Stamina which makes 'tired' boids more likely to glide and stops the lead boid just powering away on full throttle.

[Dominik-K]

Amazing video and it's great that you mentioned Compute Shaders

[KVVUZRSCHK]

Hmm in the end demo it looks like the separation rule was not quite met, as there were several birds clumping together, looking very unnatural. There were some outlier birds, keeping distance to a cluster, almost looked like an atomic nucleus and electrons.

This might be because the center boids have the sum of their "avoidance forces" be 0 as they're equally clumped together by the "electron boids" which circulate around them?

[evanwatson]

Thank god unity was kind enough to sponsor this video, happy to know they care about their devs😊

[Metcoler]

The result was beautiful... Nice video!

[MadMorgie]

Reminds me of the 1987 CGI short, Stanley & Stella in Breaking the Ice, only now we can do it in real time at much higher fidelity. Amazing, isn't it.

[CaioAletroca]

Dude, they finally added async/await standard support (like JS and C#) in Unity
apparently this took so long for them... Welp, I'm glad it's here now.

btw, great video!!

[blue_birb]

the birds coinciding with each other actually made me laugh it's so goofy how they clip into each other aggressively