by TIG » Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:51 pm
TIG
Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:51 pm
There's a thread earlier in this forum about 'instancing' - a tool available in more recent versions of Octane.
This allows you to have an OBJ file containing a definition of an 'instance' [like a car] and then add multiple instances of it will various transformations.
As the OCS transformation matrix differ from SketchUp's [the OCS uses the YZ flipped regime] there's some code in that thread's posts to 'translate' SketchUp instances' transformations into suitable OCS ones; which you can then copy/pasted from a text file it makes, into a dialog in Octane to make multiple instances of the one instance's OBJ file... You can of course also make your own transformation matrix files by hand and experiment with those... or even type directly into the dialog in Octane, once you understand what each of the several entries per line does to the each object added [this is somewhat counter intuitive compared the ways of the SKP...]
TIG