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Clones vs Instances

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art3mis
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Going through Rohan Dalvi's Mograph tutorials and he repeatedly refers to using a Copy SOP to create ‘clones’ of an object.
How is this different from creating instances and Instancing?
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Enivob
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Instancing is faster.
Here is a test scene that compares Copy vs Instance.
http://forums.odforce.net/topic/23294-houdini-16-wishlist/?do=findComment&comment=143811 [forums.odforce.net]
Using Houdini Indie 20.0
Windows 11 64GB Ryzen 16 core.
nVidia 3050RTX 8BG RAM.
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Andr1
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I guess with instancing you can't have geometry and attributes variations like with the copystamp?
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bonsak
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Yes it works with instancing as well to a certain extent. You make variation by setting varying attributes [sidefx.com] on the points of geo you're instancing on.

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Edited by bonsak - Aug. 28, 2016 17:16:30
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