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replicate a Replicator
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 9:51 am
by 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
Re: replicate a Replicator
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 12:34 am
by 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
Re: replicate a Replicator
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 9:42 am
by 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!
Re: replicate a Replicator
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 6:28 am
by 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
Re: replicate a Replicator
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 5:41 pm
by smicha
I reported it long long time before and - Paul - is there any chance it will work in the future?
Re: replicate a Replicator
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 1:06 am
by 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