replicate a Replicator

[Hesekiel2517]

Hello there,

i'm trying to replicate a Replicator. In the modo viewport and renderer everything works, but not in Octane. Is there a solution for this or did i do something wrong?

edit: Just found this old topic with the same problem:

viewtopic.php?f=34&t=45610&p=228260&hil ... or#p228260

[face_off]

i'm trying to replicate a Replicator. In the modo viewport and renderer everything works, but not in Octane. Is there a solution for this or did i do something wrong?

Hi - Replicators with a Replicator source are not supported - sorry. The plugin will use a Scatter node to store the Replicator transforms of the top-level Replicator only.

Paul

[Hesekiel2517]

Oh, thats sad! As a workaround freezing the replicators help. Is there a way to automate this. Especially for the new procedural modeling its nice to replicate an already replicated object.

Howsoever thank you for your great work!

[face_off]

Is there a way to automate this.

I don't think this would be easy. I also tried baking the geometry cache - but it was very slow and crashed Modo.

Paul

[smicha]

I reported it long long time before and - Paul - is there any chance it will work in the future?

[face_off]

is there any chance it will work in the future?

It would be very difficult to implement this - because a Modo Mesh might be both instanced, a Replicator prototype, or in a Replicator prototype Group, or in a Replicator prototype's Replicator prototype! And keeping all these scenarios in sync between Modo and Octane in a robust fashion would be very complex.

Paul