Caching agents

In Atoms you can save your simulation on disk using the Atoms cache, then is possible to reuse these caches using the "cacheReader" behaviour module. The Atoms Cache is lightwave and fast. Compared to live simulation it can increase the performance of your scene.

With the cache reader and the agents layout tool you can edit and tweak your cache.

Exporting a cache

You can open the cache exporter GUI using the shelf button or via the Atoms Menu: Atoms > Export > Cache Exporter

Create and agent group
Add a grid layout behaviour module and set the size attribute to (10,0,10)
Add a state machine behaviour module and set the state attribute to 1
Now create some other agent groups and move them
Now open the cache exporter form the Atoms menu: Atoms > Export > Cache Exporter
Select the agent groups you have created from the list, then choose a path where your cache will be saved.
Finally select your start and end frame.
Click on the "Export" button

There also few other options:

Multithread: to be used for high number of agents
Compress: compress each cache file
Random Access Compress: compress each agent in the file. Best if you are planning to read randomly the agents keeping the benefit of compression; for instance, if you will time offset agents singularly later on.

Exporting a cache

Importing a cache

Editing a cache