Copy objects / no extra poly

Red Deliallisi

Hello,

I am designing a scenography and i am positioning the seats. but the seat is high poly, so copying it 200 times would result 5 milion polys.

Is there any trick to copy it without adding the POLY COUNT ?

.Wiki

Use particle instances with proxy geometries if your renderer supports it. I did it on a recent project for a wheatfield scene with 100.000 instances of wheat strands (each had ~100k polys + hair on top) and it rendered really fast with arnold.

You could align those particles depending on a base grid and let them all face in the same direction.

Red Deliallisi

.Wiki wrote: »

Use particle instances with proxy geometries if your renderer supports it. I did it on a recent project for a wheatfield scene with 100.000 instances of wheat strands (each had ~100k polys) and it rendered really fast with arnold.

You could align those particles depending on a base grid and let them all face in the same direction.

can you explain it a little more "step by step", im using Max. im using max's mental ray.

huffer

You could use a plugin like Multiscatter, much faster and more control!

.Wiki

http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/12/ENU/3ds%20Max%202010%20Tutorials/files/WS1a9193826455f5ff-4855151011e1d0ec60d611d.htm This document describes the creation of the mrProxy Objects.

For the instances you would need a particle system. I´m a softimage user so I can´t tell you much about max´internal particle systems but they should work straight forward.

Create an Particle system with an emission on existing points and set your geometry as a instance shape.