Instancing with 2.6.12

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Re: Instancing with 2.6.12#350266

By Bubbaloo - Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:18 pm

- Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:18 pm #350266

No, it doesn't work. Furthermore, if you use a Maxwell proxy as the shape instance, it renders boxes, with no material, only the wire color. In a scene that I had to render yesterday, I had 30,000 grass clumps scattered with a particle source, and luckily I had enough RAM to handle the scene. On another note, the object paint works with proxies, but it's not as easy to use as the particle system.

Brian Looney
Maxwell + RealFlow
http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Artists/Bubbaloo
Help! I'm dispersing into a haze of probability!

Re: Instancing with 2.6.12#350269

By numerobis - Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:18 pm

- Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:18 pm #350269

Bubbaloo wrote:No, it doesn't work.

and why...?!?

this would be really helpful...

Maxwell 3.2.1.2 - Win 7 x64

Re: Instancing with 2.6.12#350270

By brodie_geers - Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:34 pm

- Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:34 pm #350270

At least that's confirmed. I have indeed switched to object paint which is nice but can certainly be less flexible. Personally, I could care less about using 3ds Max instances if Pflow doesn't work.

I'm also noticing that the proxies are no longer a point cloud but rather a box (LOD no longer really does anything). I wonder if that's intentional or I'm missing something.

-Brodie

Re: Instancing with 2.6.12#350278

By Bubbaloo - Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:02 am

- Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:02 am #350278

numerobis wrote:
Bubbaloo wrote:No, it doesn't work.
and why...?!?

I don't know!

Brian Looney
Maxwell + RealFlow
http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Artists/Bubbaloo
Help! I'm dispersing into a haze of probability!

Re: Instancing with 2.6.12#350300

By Mihnea Balta - Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:41 am

- Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:41 am #350300

Can somebody send me a scene where PFlow exports a single mesh instead of instances? I've just tested it and it seems to work correctly. Are you sure you're using a shape instance operator?

brodie_geers wrote: I'm also noticing that the proxies are no longer a point cloud but rather a box (LOD no longer really does anything). I wonder if that's intentional or I'm missing something.

None of the custom objects (proxies, MXS references etc.) work with the new Nitrous viewport that was introduced in 2012. We have to rewrite everything to make them work with that and we didn't have time for it yet. The only solution is to switch back to the DirectX 9 viewport.

Re: Instancing with 2.6.12#350313

By brodie_geers - Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:46 pm

- Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:46 pm #350313

You can download the a .zip file here http://min.us/mOT6FUV5p (it's about a 200kb download)
That contains a simple 2012 scene using Pflow as well as the MXS file which it produces on my computer. Max Instancing is enabled within the Maxwell parameters and the Pflow uses Shape Instance. I'm using the 2.6.14 plugin.

-Brodie