Some more progress with the ofxBoids library, finally! I’ve been ticking away at it slowly. But I’ve also been trying to get my head around calculus, and also have a 3D printer now which is taking up some spare time—all good things though.
There is always some amount of head scratching when it comes to implementing a new vector-maths-based feature, and this time it was the Flowfield. In practice it was nothing new really, just still getting used to some C++-isms with one-dimensional vectors (arrays) and how to iterate through them as a two-dimensional array. This Stackoverflow post was useful for that.
Once I got that sorted, the rest was pretty simple! And now I can have many boids/vehicles flying around following the flowfield. Next step is to get on to path-following and eventually flocking behaviours which is was this is all about really!
Josh