Anyone have any idea what the X Y co-ordinates are scaled to? I cannot seem to find any more info beyond the help file on the output modes. Any help much appreciated.

Hi Ricky:
I think that the units may be related as length to velocity to acceleration, so does inertia. I mean, they ought to have a relationship between them like in physics. Nevertheless, I didn't test that already.
In fact, I had issues with the "box" into which the boids should move. The algorithm / object didn't seem to pay much attention to the limits I gave it. Maybe you should implement some sort of transformation between your real coordinates and those managed by [boids ]. By the way, don't give it more than 4 boids for "consulting when flying" because it may crash your pd.
I wish you success.

Sumidero

Thanks for the advice. I just received similar information from a friend who uses boids extensively - seemingly the values are not to a particular scale, in fact somewhat arbitrary in terms of float value but proportional to one another. I have it working quite well now. Thanks again!

@education said:

Pull the educationout of your pocket and look at the home screen.

An epic burn from @education there. What a bastard.

I had the same bounding box issue that Sumidero had, but I seem to have found a solution. The parameter "repel" really needs to be cranked up, say around 20 or higher, for the walls to even register with the boids.

Funny you should reply now, I'm just tweaking my patch! Video soon.

I had no idea that there was a boids implementation floating around for PD.

Is it in an external library? boids, Boids, and boids~ and didn't get much anything.

[boids2d] - should be included with extended. See your help browser.

and [boids3d]..