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Hi.
I'm trying to make some grass using PF Source to scatter grass blades over a plane.
If I don't use instances the scene takes a short time to export even with a high amount of particles (100000); but if I use instances (checking the box in general settings panel) the time to export the scene increases greatly. With 10000 particles it takes around a minute in my system.

Is this behaviour normal? I'm not very used to PF, maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks!

Unfortunately, I think that's just how it works. I get significant export slowdown at anything over 50k instances. I tried covering a large lawn with grass blades using the PF source method, but gave up eventually.

Thanks Bubba!

I wonder if it could be addressed somehow from plugin side.

The result is looking quite good.

I'll go over the code and see if it can be improved when using instances.

fernando, i've had generally better results using the grass o matic plugin opposed to approach mentioned above.... worth a try if you haven't done so already.

http://www.maxplugins.de/max9.php?page= ... &sort=Name

Thank you Bogdan, you are always ready to help.

That's a cool plugin, Rusteberg. Very easy to setup though it doesn't produce instances (maybe I'm missing something), right? Anyway I'll keep it in my pocket for fast use.

Cheers!