pixlix2
06-20-2006, 01:25 PM
hello everyone!
Can someone help me with an instancer question?
I have a scene with many spaceships instanced using the particle instancer...
Since I want to continue working on the ships, I have them in a seperate file which I reference in the main scene. After loading the reference into the main scene I group every ship to itself because else the instancer will not accept them. This works all pretty well... but when I change the models in the referenced file (especially adding objects to the ships), the changes are not directly reflected in the main scenes' instancer. I first have to remove all objects from the instancer node and then add them again - this will force the refresh. But that's a terrible workflow - i have about 20 instancers in the scene and each one itself instances many ships.
Is there any other trick to refresh them?
Many thanks!!
Can someone help me with an instancer question?
I have a scene with many spaceships instanced using the particle instancer...
Since I want to continue working on the ships, I have them in a seperate file which I reference in the main scene. After loading the reference into the main scene I group every ship to itself because else the instancer will not accept them. This works all pretty well... but when I change the models in the referenced file (especially adding objects to the ships), the changes are not directly reflected in the main scenes' instancer. I first have to remove all objects from the instancer node and then add them again - this will force the refresh. But that's a terrible workflow - i have about 20 instancers in the scene and each one itself instances many ships.
Is there any other trick to refresh them?
Many thanks!!