Hi A visible instance master will be included in the scene bounds. I don't know that it will slow things down, but it could "skew the BVH build inappropriately, perhaps".
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Eric Thivierge <[email protected]>wrote: > Some renderers like Arnold I believe will count that within the bounding > box of the scene and may make some loading / calculations slower from what > I've heard. Feel free to correct me Mr. Blair. :) > > Eric T. > > On Tuesday, February 04, 2014 11:44:55 AM, Cristobal Infante wrote: > >> Good to know! >> >> I do however like to move my master instance to a different location >> in the scene. It's easier to tweak them this way ;) >> > >

