display instances as bounding boxes.

[alimarafia]

Hi,

 

I've made a lot of trees using the instance command ( move/shift/instance ) however the file became more more slow to manipulate. I would like to know if it is possible to display the instances as bounding box or any simpler geometry.

 

thanks in advance

[Krisztian Gulyas]

Select the trees, right click, object properties, general tab, display as box

 

Though if you've created so many trees, the render-time will be veery long.

Edited August 10, 2013 by krisztiangulyas

[alimarafia]

Thanks krisztian.

 

Though if you've created so many trees, the render-time will be veery long.

Indeed it is. As a newbie in this area, I would be interested to know if there is a better way to copy trees without this render time-issue.

[Krisztian Gulyas]

You're welcome.

You can use proxies. If you're using VRay, then right click, vray mesh export, give that object a name, tick "atomatically create proxies", set "faces in preview" to about 5-15 thousand (5-15 percent of the faces the original object has), and you can copy them. It's faster (shorter render-time) than copying them as instances, but it always takes a lot of time to render realistic trees.

[Jose Negrete]

you might also have the tree proxies in their own file and xref them in when needed.