 | | | For instance, importing Amapi clones | For instance, importing Amapi clones 2003-11-26 - By steven_mcq
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Has anyone on this list had any luck importing Amapi clone
duplicates as instances of master objects in Carrara? I have the
Carrara-Amapi bridge, but all duplicate clones come across the
bridge with their own individual master objects. In other words,
cloning does not seem to be preserved in the translation. Any
comments?
I think instancing is one of the most underrated features of
Carrara, and it needs more tools. You are going to appreciate its
value when you start exporting models to Viewpoint and Atmosphere
(same geometry engine). I'm building a very complex model that would
be far to heavy for the web, except that the symmetry of the thing
and the repeated elements mean that by instancing I can cut the file
size down to less than 5 percent of the original without any loss of
detail! Huge amount of tedious work, though, because the tools are
paltry.
I wish Anything Grows would preserve tip objects as intances. I wish
Gemini would create a half model as an instance of the other half. I
wish there were a way to distribute instances to vertices or facets
of a mesh (yes, Amapi does this but as I said, the clones don't
cross the bridge to Carrara). I wish particles were all instances of
but one master particle. I wish the hundreds or thousands of leaves
on a Carrara tree were but one leaf repeated without additional
geometry. I wish Carrara or Amapi could read PDB molecule files and
create each atomic sphere as an instance of a master sphere so that
macromolecules with thousands of atoms would have minute file sizes.
The wish list goes on and on. I guess I'm wishing for "instance"
gratification.
SMcQ
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