On a slightly related note, that I've thought about recently, is there a way to use a proxy object as instance shape in the viewport, and a different one at rendetime?
There's a really useful expression you can use in Nuke (pseudo code here) something like $GUI which returns true or false if its the gui version of Nuke, or the batch version. Is there anything like that for soft? Simon Reeves London, UK *[email protected] <[email protected]>* *www.simonreeves.com <http://www.simonreeves.com>* *www.analogstudio.co.uk <http://www.analogstudio.co.uk>* On 4 February 2014 21:56, Alok Gandhi <[email protected]> wrote: > The best and clean way would be to Check Instance Master Hidden in the > visibility properties of the instance master geo as Rob has rightfully > pointed out. I don't think a Hidden Instance Master would slow down arnold. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 4, 2014, at 14:10, Stephen Blair <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ;) >>> >> >> >
