• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Use Multi Instance without cloner for manually placing copies

  Posted by Nayan Chhaniyara on July 11, 2020 at 5:31 am

  So I am working on a architectural project and I have huge detailed assets of carvings, I want to clone these assets to a specific position in my scene using multi-instance as it won’t eat up my memory compared to render instance, I was wondering is there a way to do so?

  i.e. if I make instance object of the asset and use it in multi-instance mode nothing shows up in viewport as well as in render, but when i use it in render instance mode it shows up fine.

  Thanks for this great community of creative cow

  Nayan Chhaniyara replied 6 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Brian Jones

  July 11, 2020 at 8:07 pm

  I think the MultiInstance can only be used with a Position Source for where the instances will go. And the only difference, as I read it, is that multi-instance makes all the instances a single object a single object (internally) so viewport performance will be quicker compared with Render Instances.
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  Nayan Chhaniyara

  July 12, 2020 at 6:07 pm

  Thanks this was really helpful

  Nayan,
  CG Artist, Akshar Chalchitram Studios

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