Instance or Reference

[Wahooney]

Basically, instanceReplace() makes your object an instance of the original object (ie. They're exactly the same) and referenceReplace() makes your object a a reference of the original (ie. exactly the same, except that the reference can have additional modifiers at the top of it's stack)

The usage is simple:

objDest = object you want to change
objSrc = object you want to change it to

instanceReplace objDest objSrc
referenceReplace objDest objSrc

Hope this helps.

[igor333]

Hi,
I used this line :

instanceReplace obj mesh_mat

Instead of these:

w = copy mesh_mat

w.rotation = obj.rotation

w.pos = obj.pos

delete obj

obj = object I want to change
mesh_mat = object I want to change it to (with texture and UV mapping)

It didn't replace my obj with texture and UV maping.

What seems to be the problem?

Thanks.

[Wahooney]

Do you mean that you want your original object to retain it's old mapping?

Cos instanceReplace() should make an exact duplicate of the source object.

[igor333]

Wahooney,
I have an obj with texture and UV mapping on it ,and I have
few other objects without any texture on it or uv map.
I want to replace the objects to be with textures on.
for each obj to do :
instanceReplace obj mesh_mat_with_texture

but it doesn't work...

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