Hello everyone, we’re still steadily making progress:

• Unreal
  • Creation of threat entities and civilian entities.
  • Civilian entities have a range that detects threat entities.
  • Attempts to set up Houdini in new virtual environment.
• Unity
  • Set up Boids and physics samples in Unity for further testing and experimentation.
  • Design of an ordered spawning formation demo that moves forward together.
  • Implemented script to manipulate Unity time dilation for up to 100x faster than real time.

Unfortunately, CAE had a large event to attend to this week and could not make it to our usual Thursday meetings. See everyone next week!

Hello everyone, another week another update. We’ve made great deal of progress in our Unreal MassEntities demo and developed actionable goals for Unity. Let’s go over everything.

• Successfully migrated Houdini city generation work to the virtual machine.
• Secured a graphics card for the virtual machine to get rendering to function in Houdini.
• Completed migration of our Unreal work to version 5.1.
• Established foundation for building more behaviors in Unreal.
• Assessed how actionable CAE’s provided behaviors can be in Unity DOTS:
  • Basic avoidance and movement very possible.
  • Boids sample for flocking behavior and physics samples for collisions.
  • Pathfinding and more complex behaviors are not feasible with remaining time.

Here’s what we discussed in our meeting with CAE:

• Houdini work on the virtual machine.
• Unreal demo for the foundations set up in preparation for more behaviors.
• Showing performance relative to number of pathfinding entities.
• Discussing faster than real time possibilities in Unreal.
• Considering plans moving forward in meeting others who work with Unreal in CAE to address performance and LOD.
• Asked for a list of possible behaviors to implement.

Here is what we have been up to the last few days:

• Further research on Unity ECS. Creating designs in simple behaviors. Looking into pathfinding solutions.
• Progress on migrating our Unreal implementation to the Unreal 5.1 update.
• More wrestling with Houdini, having difficulties working with the software.
• Worked with Coach Wilson to secure access to UF cloud computers.
• Preparing for our first QRB.

We covered a few things in our meeting with CAE this week.

• Discussed our difficulties with Houdini and possibly scoping down to focus on agent behaviors.
• Considering how we can use Houdini on UF computers.
• Asked for a list of behaviors for implementation in ECS.

Hello everyone, we are continuing to work on our demos this week. Picking up our licenses for the city map generation software Houdini, we started experimenting with it this week.

• Following documentation and tutorials in the use of Houdini.
• Studying more on the use of Unity ECS. Further research on pathfinding implementations
• Porting our Unreal MassEntity implementation to Unreal 5.1.

Here’s what we talked about in our meeting:

• Progress on Houdini and our plan to generate city maps for both Unreal and Unity.

Hello! After a nice winter break, team Entity is ready to go back to work doing research and designing demos for CAE using Entity Component Systems. Here’s what we have worked on our first week back:

• Looked into Houdini, software which generates city scenes for both Unity and Unreal engines.
• More research on ECS to develop our next prototypes with more advanced behaviors.
• Short presentation reviewing our plan for the semester in developing our final demos and white paper.

A short meeting this week with our liaisons:

• Discussed logistics for our meetings going forward.
• Thoughts on using Houdini.
• Talked about our plans for the semester.

Some demos coming in next week!