Nodes nodes nodes

Been looking at the nodes in houdini and ice and the main thing I noticed they included that maya has none of are logic nodes...if.... For.... While etc so these are nearly definite include

Also they have all the common nodes for emitting and adding forces to particles but none that are specifically for a crowd

Node Fx

So I've decided it's defiantly going to be a visual node based system like houdini's VOPs,  this way I handling data seems very efficient and easy to manipulate

I just need to research what nodes would be essential for a base library as well as narrow down the focus from just a particle tool for maya to something. More solid

Mel is slooow

So I had a play with the crowd tool I made and it's fun to get this goin again but I've noticed it's super slow when handling more than 100 agents, this makes me think a python alternative may be just as slow so time for some tests

Ideas

So to start I'm thinking about creating a node ui that can do something in maya

Main ideas are for crowd control and a way of controlling particles easier in maya

Others include maybe a tool for transferring particle sims between apps

A crowd control too for making armies of agents similar to my 2nd year project