Haha. Looks a littlebit like the one I made; Link

But I have to say that yours is the better one (and a plugin) ^^

Anyone intrested to see further development for this old project of mine ?

Wjbender@ hi there mate, I'm interested!

I would also be very interested ^^

I'm also interested in it - but was unable to set up your source in VC++2010

as I read about it, opensteer is rather a presentation of a theory, or a simulation, made by the guy who found out the whole system, than a directly usable plugin for games, because the character quantity is max a few tens (okay, in many cases it is enough), and obstacle avoidance is very basic, and costs a lot of preformance (I just saw the demo with a few circle obstacles, no complex environments). but it has a couple of modified versions, which are probably used in games, I'll try to find some open source ones.

another cool library is the RVO2 http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/RVO2/ ,which is based on ORCA http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/ORCA/ . it deals with crowd simulation, producing collision and oscillation free movement without communication among agents. it could be used to manage NPC crowds in games e.g. in a city environment. used in Warhammer 40k. open source but not free to use in commercial games.

Hi sivan , yes i have rvo2 2d and rvo 3d 2 but if i dive inro rvo i would have to request permission from the university of north carolina , perhaps i might just get it who knows...

I also have jsbsim for flight dynamics simulation but okay thats a project im net getting into now..
The main reason i went for opensteer first is its license ..

Yes they say that they cant guarantee it being functionaly stable but i have not seen any demo that proves it not to be good enough for small uses..although yes i understand what you are getting at.

yes, RVO2 licensing is a problem.
opensteer is basically cool, I just don't know how it can be practically adjusted to a game environment, or suited to which game type in its current form. probably okay for open levels with a few trees and impassable blocks, but maybe there are some 3rd party extensions available. and definitely a good way to learn the flocking rules.

Well yes it is oriented towards agent to agent avoidance and not enviroment avoidance although the circular objects could be used for rts buildings but in general i would say agent to agent restrained to a path , i saw a demo that used bitmaps for a vehicle to move on a track with obsticles .. I am not sure it would be a very usefull plugin more than agent to agent and perhaps vehicles on a terrain..
Without polygonal collision shapes it could be a waste of my time

comparing to recast/detour, it is surely much less reliable to deal with

I would love to see a mod of this to be used for racing game ui! I want cars to flock towards a single node then have them continue to next node as they pass the first. In other words following a single path but they're all randomly offset from the path or node. That would be cool! Anyone done anything like this?