boids-rs

An implementation of Craig Reynold's Boids algorithm implemented in Rust using the Amethyst game engine.

Boids simulates a flock of birds with coordinated group behaviour. Several rules applied to each boid in turn. These rules allow the flock to exhibit various behavioural characteristics.

Rules

• Separation: Steer to avoid crowding local flockmates
• Alignment: Steer towards the average heading of local flockmates
• Cohesion: Steer to move towards the average position (center of mass) of local flockmates

Dependencies

If you are compiling on Linux, make sure to install the dependencies below.

Debian/Ubuntu

apt install gcc pkg-config openssl libasound2-dev cmake build-essential python3 libfreetype6-dev libexpat1-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libssl-dev libx11-dev libfontconfig1-dev

Other operating systems

See Amethyst README.

Build and Run

1. Ensure you have version 1.47.0 of the rust compiler installed. There is bug in amethyst version 0.15 preventing compilation with newer versions of rustc. You can override rustc version for current directory with following command $ rustup default 1.47.0.
2. Build the project $ cargo build --release (NOTE: There is a large performance difference when compiling without optimizations, so I recommend alwasy using --release to enable to them)
3. Once complete, the binary will be located at target/release/boids
4. Use $ cargo run --release to build and then run, in one step