Golaem 8.2.5

Golaem releases Golaem 8.2.5. This solution makes it easy and affordable to populate worlds with directable digital characters, from a few to thousands.


Golaem Crowd is an artist friendly crowd simulation tool for Maya used in production by a long and growing list of visual effect studios. With Golaem it's easy to create diversity and apply behaviors to create natural looking crowds in a shorter time than has traditionally been possible. Golaem includes an advanced procedural fur workflow with skinned fur which can be deformed along the character animation and bone chains. This workflow is compatible with most of the major fur simulation solutions (Xgen, Yeti, Ornatrix) and proprietary engines provided they can be imported within Maya as curves (or Alembic curves).
The new Golaem Unreal Engine integration comes with Golaem Blueprint nodes, making it possible to create interactions between Golaem and Unreal Engine. The Golaem Blueprint nodes can be used to trigger events in the Golaem Simulation or to override placement or simulation parameters. To facilitate the use of Golaem into Unreal Engine, all characters from the Golaem Character Pack are available as ready-to-use Unreal Engine characters, complete with shaders diversity.
Golaem includes a procedural plugin for USD, efficiently loading Golaem characters in the USD pipeline, therefore making them directly usable in many digital content creation tools supporting USD, which includes NVIDIA Omniverse. The Golaem for USD procedural plugin is available for USD Standalone, Houdini, and Katana. The procedural code is open source for studios that need to build it themselves.
Golaem simulations can be brought into Houdini with a dedicated plugin expanding them to real Houdini geometry. The Golaem for Houdini plugin comes with the Golaem Cache Library and Layout Tool for easy imports and modifications directly in Houdini.
Thanks to its NVIDIA Apex integration, Golaem can simulate clothes in real-time with many characters. Through a partnership with NVIDIA & Autodesk, Golaem is maintaining the Physx/Apex plugin code and hosts builds for Windows & Linux and for new versions of Maya.

Golaem 8 introduces real-time simulation in Unreal Engine, facilitating interactive usage and Unreal Engine-based creation workflows, and enables animating thousands of characters with advanced behaviors, including physics, fur, and cloth simulation, in real-time. Golaem 8 also increases the crowd previsualization quality inside the Maya viewport while keeping Golaem great performances, and brings new Layout layers enabling it to populate and customize a scene faster.

Tracking Objects with the Layout Tool


This tutorial explains how to track an object translation/orientation with the Layout Tool so that your characters can be synchronized with a Maya object
Golaem is a software company that specializes in creating tools and solutions for digital character animation. Their software is used by animators and visual effects artists in the film, television, and gaming industries to create realistic and believable digital characters that can be used in a variety of different contexts. One of Golaem’s key products is Golaem Crowd, a software tool that is designed to make it easy and affordable to create and manage large numbers of digital characters in animation and visual effects projects.

Owner: Golaem
Product Name: Golaem Crowd
Version: 8.2.5 with Plugins & Offline Documentation *
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : http://golaem.com/
Languages Supported: english
System Requirements: Windows & Linux **
Size: 6.6 Gb