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Forest Pack => Forest Pro (*) => Topic started by: ldotchops on February 22, 2022, 01:59:21 PM

Title: vray proxies not animating with modifiers
Post by: ldotchops on February 22, 2022, 01:59:21 PM

I have animated vray proxies. i have offset their animation to start later. They show in viewport that they are animating, also being effected by my bend modifiers on top of them. but then when i render they are completely static. using Vray CPU forest pack pro 3.1

Title: Re: vray proxies not animating with modifiers
Post by: Paul Roberts on February 22, 2022, 02:04:03 PM

Hmmm - that's strange. I'm not sure adding modifiers on top of proxies is recommended, though I haven't thoroughly tested it. Could you share a simplified scene to helpdesk@itoosoft.com?

Thanks,

Paul

Title: Re: vray proxies not animating with modifiers
Post by: Paul Roberts on February 22, 2022, 02:08:00 PM

OK - I've just checked and modifiers aren't supported on proxy objects. Therefore even though it'll appear as though it's working for the "preview mesh", It won't render.

I would recommend that either you load the geometry into the scene or use XRefs, or you could apply the modifiers before converting them to proxies. Forest Pack doesn't actually require geometry to be a proxy though, it's pretty must just as efficient scattering scene geometry.

Cheers,
Paul

Title: Re: vray proxies not animating with modifiers
Post by: ldotchops on February 22, 2022, 02:19:59 PM

okay thanks, it was just to save memory in general. but i will convert them back