Re: Instances doesn't exist in any partition

["Arvid Björn" <arvidbjorn(at)gmail.com>]

Well, no you can't really do much with instances, but I get a lot of errors when I try to add a lot of geometry at once to a partition, some of which are instances, it's a hassle to make sure you've only picked "valid" objects in the selection. The instances are supposed to be valid, but when this happens, they cease to be valid, and I get an error when I try to create a partition or move these objects into one. 


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On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Thiago Costa <thiagocosta3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:

how is that no partitions hold the instance?
it doesn't show in the partition or the partition has no effect on it?

The only thing you can do with instances is set visibility overrides using the "master visibility override" thing... would be nice if instances could have it own mixer animation and a global shader override at least.

On 03/04/2008, Patrick Nethercoat <patrick(at)brandtanim.co.uk> wrote:

I had this problem with duplicated lights recently. The only way I sorted it out was by rebuilding passes.

 

Patrick

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From: Arvid Björn

To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM

Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:50 PM

Subject: Instances doesn't exist in any partition

Hey,

I searched the archives and found this mail, and point three is happening to me right now. My instances are not to be found in ANY partition, and the reason is that I duplicated my instance while spreading them in the scene instead of using Ctrl-i, I didn't realize there would be a difference, and the result is that no partition is holding the instance, and I can't put it in one. Is this a known bug, and more importantly, is there any other way to fix it than the hard way?

Thanks,
Arvid

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On Mon, Feb 6, 2006 at 11:50 PM, Bernard Lebel <3dbernard(at)gmail.com> wrote:

- Too many instances can also be very long to open the scene.

- I never put a model and its instances under another model. Instead,
I bring the model in the scene and instantiate it there. This is even
more important with ref models. If I need this map of instances in
another scene, I resort to merges or scripts.

- Sometimes, renderable instances are not in any partition. That is
rarely a cause of problem, but I like working clean so I watch out for
this one.

- I avoid creating foliage and the likes with instances. This will
kill all performance. Instead, I merge the geometry.


I consider instances to be great when used with reasonnably low
amounts of them (some people will easily create hundreds, if not
thousands of instances..... ouch), and to instantiate complex
structures like rigged characters.


Cheers
Bernard

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