HD Instance is working fine

[ladeira3d]

Hello

I´ve just hit render in kray by mistake and he rendered hd instance trees with no problem.



I´ve lightwave 9.5 + Kray 1.7 OB8 and Hd instance 2.0.5

I´m goint to test in another project the i have with hundreds os trees and i post the result later

[Janusz Biela]

Hello

I´ve just hit render in kray by mistake and he rendered hd instance trees with no problem.



I´ve lightwave 9.5 + Kray 1.7 OB8 and Hd instance 2.0.5

I´m goint to test in another project the i have with hundreds os trees and i post the result later

My record is 40 Milinon poly on instant (3.4 Giga)

[ladeira3d]

now i don´t understand i´ve one scene with hd instance that works fine and other that does not work.
it´s not cloning with nulls and rename, it´s pure hd instance with cloning objects over points.

i´m confused

[ladeira3d]

now it´s working, but i don´t know why

[archijam]

Excuse me - HD Instance works with Kray?

Hmmm .. First of all, is this a feature or an accident?

Secondly, how does it compare with the instancing in Kray (not feature-wise, I own both and am aware of the features, but speed-wise)

Has anyone else found this to be the case? It's fascinating.

There are certainly some things about HD I which are nice, random mixing + placement etc, however I was always annoyed to own 2 3rd party instancing solutions that were mutually exclusive.

Would love to hear more!

[geo_n]

Didn't work for me.
using lw 9.3.1 ,kray ob8, hd instance 2.04

[archijam]

.. Or me, but I only have HDI 1.82.

Tell more!

[except]

Kray and HD instance have been working well for me for quite some time now.

Remember, it's not really HDinstance, it's Kray using the placement settings of HDInstance to make its own clones. So its exactly as fast as kray's native instancing.

Oh this is with HDI 2

[geo_n]

I'm using hd 2 but still couldn't get it to work. Added a bunch of points and hd instance and even renamed points into similar name with object.

[jure]

I will only work on LW9.5+...

[jure]

Remember, it's not really HDinstance, it's Kray using the placement settings of HDInstance to make its own clones. So its exactly as fast as kray's native instancing.

Oh this is with HDI 2

That's not completely true. KRay IS rendering real HDinstance volumetrics not Kray instances. We have tried to talk with the HDi developer to make it work like you said, but mr. Fyffe seems to be very slow in responding to our emails...

[geo_n]

I will only work on LW9.5+...

ah I see. Its wierd that it won't work in 9.3.1. So I'll have to fire up 9.5 and all those new "stable" features

[geo_n]

fired up 9.5 and still a no go!

[jure]

hmm strange. could you share a scene so i can take a look?

[geo_n]

It works with hd instance lw F9. Attached file. Replaced object with box. Model was commercial.