Hi,
my prefered strategy is to always use instance objects with render instance active (they point to original objects hidden inside a null) and always leave the render instance option unchecked for cloner object. This help also because you can select the different element at once and activate ...

My scene keeps crashing when I hit render to picture viewer bu tits fine when i render to live viewer. i cant figure this one out. i even tried exporting it to the standalone and it would only show me the 1st frame of my scene. i attached my project file:
C4D
milld1ttest.rar

Octane standalone ...

here we go!!

I don't believe so. It's been so long now I can't recall, though I would have put the solution here for all to read.

ok, thanks though. its crazy it works for me in the live viewer, but not the picture viewer.
are you with default values of parameters in render settings?

how can i share my ...

jayroth wrote:I don't believe so. It's been so long now I can't recall, though I would have put the solution here for all to read.

ok, thanks though. its crazy it works for me in the live viewer, but not the picture viewer.

OK, I'm stumped. I have a field of corn that is supposed to be swaying in the wind. The field is created with a cloner. I have 4 different corn stalk treatments that the cloner is using randomly. I have tried several different methods to get a believable sway (that's another story, as cloners are ...