Allen Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Have any of you used Happy-Digital's HD Instance? Looks good for adding a lot of trees, etc into scenes. Just don't know anyone's experience with it as it relates to Arch Viz. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseDog Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 buy it. you won't look back. sadly restricted to lw8 and below for the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Posted December 29, 2004 Author Share Posted December 29, 2004 Thanks, MooseDog. Getting it today. BTW, also got your response at LW site. Appreciate your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Posted December 30, 2004 Author Share Posted December 30, 2004 Here's the first test using the HD Instance plug-in. (The trees) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwright Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 intresting!. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Posted January 17, 2005 Author Share Posted January 17, 2005 Here's a better "test" of the HD instance plug. Came in very handy for this. The big limitation for the plug-in is it's inability to work with FPrime (Hopefully remedied soon with changes by Newtek to the SDK). Also, the plug-in slows renders down - however if you're dealing with millions of clones, this is an option worth looking at. Each of the trees below contains about 118K. HD instance rotates, scales, and can color each of the objects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IC Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Looks good Allen-nice render. FPrime is really frustrating with the restrictions LW puts on it. Hope they sort it soon. I'm also noticing that I choose to do the more prestigious stuff with the native renderer not just because of that but also because of the quality. The Monte Carlo setting in FPrime is well short of the LW one but what do you expect in a fifth of the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Posted January 18, 2005 Author Share Posted January 18, 2005 Thanks, IC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalodon Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 We've been using HD_Instance for a few years now - it is an INCREDIBLE plugin. We could not have done the animations we have without it. The limitations with FPrime - not to mention all other volumetrics and shaders - is frustrating, but it looks as if Newtek is really working to improve the SDK and hopefully we'll soon see the fruits of their labor! Dave Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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