congrats! now get started and create some kickass grass materials & renders. but why not start such a thread and get people to post their examples and tests, perhaps if we're lucky maybe we can wake up the betatesters to get them to post their ideas and creations.You can Do it!Maximus3D wrote: mQue: You're welcome
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i can guarantee you that much.
nooo.. YOU can do it! you're a thread-starter kinda guy. Or we just let Bubba do it.. what do you think about that idea Bubba ?
You don't want to do this. Every instance is a discrete 'thing' which has an identity, and it takes both memory and disk space to maintiain this identity. Moreover, during export, there is alot of work that has to be done in the name of establishing all of those 100,000 identities. Much more time than it takes to just spit out scads of nameless x/y/z data. So the better strategy is to model a group of objects (i.e. join a bunch of blades of grass into one mesh), then instance that as necessary. The size of the group vs. the number of instances is going to be scene-specific, as regards what gives you the best results in terms of flexibility, memory, and export time.Bubbaloo wrote:I've also had some limited success with instancing modelled grass blades, but once you get over 100,000 instances, Max becomes very slow at exporting the mxs.
Thanks, that's a good tip.JDHill wrote:You don't want to do this. Every instance is a discrete 'thing' which has an identity, and it takes both memory and disk space to maintiain this identity. Moreover, during export, there is alot of work that has to be done in the name of establishing all of those 100,000 identities. Much more time than it takes to just spit out scads of nameless x/y/z data. So the better strategy is to model a group of objects (i.e. join a bunch of blades of grass into one mesh), then instance that as necessary. The size of the group vs. the number of instances is going to be scene-specific, as regards what gives you the best results in terms of flexibility, memory, and export time.Bubbaloo wrote:I've also had some limited success with instancing modelled grass blades, but once you get over 100,000 instances, Max becomes very slow at exporting the mxs.
Also, it might be helpful if this process of exporting mxs with instances was multi-threaded if there is so much work being done at the time.
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