HD instance or Fprime

[Panikos]

This is a very difficult question.
Its a very interesting race between LW+HD_Instance VS LW+FPrime.

I assume you are rendering HiRes Prints.

Scenario A
HD_Instance can help you render millions of trees with variation in Scale/Rotation/Colour
but is slow for such resolutions.

Scenario B
FPrime will render hipoly scenes with no problem, but considering the hires print resolution
thats a tricky case

I suggest you buy HD_Instance and try. Its a great plugin, no doubt that sooner or later you will make its money and you will be able to use it anyway.
I also suggest to try to model some quick cheaty dirty lowpoly trees.
It will help you in both scenaria.

All the best

[MooseDog]

i'd be more than happy to be corrected, but hd_instance has serious problems with 8.01, if that's what you are using. i haven't looked over at grahm's site for a while, but mainly because the fantastic plug-in i bought doesn't work witj my lw8.01. disappointing to say the least, but like i said, happy to be contradicted on this one :)

[KillMe]

it is 8.01 i'm running at the moment - do you know if it works with 8.0?

[Panikos]

Here is part of the readme.txt that is in the latest HD_Instance 1.6.4

"HD Instance 1.6.4 requires LightWave 7.5 or up. Some people have experienced problems using it with LightWave 8.0.1, but it works fine with LightWave 8.0.0. We're working on a fix for that."

[adrencg]

The great thing about HD instance is the strain it takes away from layout by not having to move about the scene with millions of polygons. So I believe its better from a "working" standpoint, not a "rendering" one.

Mike

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