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Ihno

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Instance engine work through multible railclone objects?
« on: July 25, 2016, 09:57:24 AM »
Hi,
does the instance engine work through multiple Railclone objects?
Let's say you build a House with Railclone and take that house as segment  for a new Railclone object.
Will the instance engine still be instancing the source objects of that house, or the house itself?

Paul Roberts

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Re: Instance engine work through multible railclone objects?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2016, 10:08:55 AM »
Hi,

Thanks for the question. In this scenario the house will be instanced as a single object, at present RailClone treats a nested style as though it were a single static mesh. Of course this mesh in then instanced so unless it contains tens of millions of polygons you shouldn't have a problem.

The only exceptions are if a segment is sliced or deformed in which case just that part of the mesh is rendered as static geometry, or if you use the segment's Nest option to force the randomisation a nested style's parameters. In that case instancing is disabled completely.



I hope that helps, please let me know if you have any further questions.

Many Thanks,

Paul
« Last Edit: July 25, 2016, 10:29:02 AM by Paul Roberts »
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Ihno

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Re: Instance engine work through multible railclone objects?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2016, 11:48:01 AM »
Thanks for the quick answer.  :)
I was just curious about this. There is no specific problem currently.
Cheers