In the Houdini 16 documentation it clearly states you can simply generate a crowd by clicking Simulate in the shelf and press enter to generate a 1000 agents. There is also a video that shows this function but this simply does not work for me. Every time I do this I get an error Nothing was selected. I'm I doing something wrong here? Seems easy, click a button and hit the enter key but it just doesn't work for me. Any ideas?




http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/crowds/setup [www.sidefx.com]

https://sidefx.com/tutorials/crowd-intro/ [sidefx.com]

Nah, that don't work.
There are several steps, and you need to complete them all.
1.)Create an agent, must be a deforming mesh with bones (i.e. FBX).
2.)Bake agent motion.
3.)Populate agent on to ground plane.
4.)Then you can click the Simulate button.

There are quite a few tutorials on how to do a basic setup.
Check out…
https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/?title=&user=&categories=12&level=&version=&paid= [www.sidefx.com]

I think that option was replaced by Ctrl+clicking to build a default setup, since it previously was very easy to accidentally create that when you thought that some agents were selected