Hello,

I 'm trying to instance trees .
they have leaves and trunk material.
But when I sue instance point, i can apply only one material to the entire object.
So I separated the trees in 2 parts

But what if I would like to instance an object with, let say, 10 materials ?

I tried delayed load a little but without success …

thanks for your help

Split your tree geo by material, then instance X times for each.
2 materials, 2 instances, 3 materials, 3 instances, etc…
It's more complicated if you use packed primitives…

this is what I did for the trees but …
Now I need to instance characters from another soft with dozen of differents surfaces.
This method will drive me crazy

I need something more efficent ..

vbk!!!
this is what I did for the trees but …
Now I need to instance characters from another soft with dozen of differents surfaces.
This method will drive me crazy

I need something more efficent ..

Packed primitives are an easy way to do instancing. You might want to read this post [sidefx.com]

thanks for the link.

I was thinking the packed primlitive was only for the copy at SOP level …
Obviously, I misunderstood something !

ok
that's better !

But now I am stuck with the renderstate …
It seems it doesn't find the attribute create on one of my primitive group.

I made a simple scene test.
Maybe could you take a look and explain what I did wrong.

thx

renderstate packed:<attribname> will get attribute that's on the packed primitive, not inside

because you are creating attribute before packing, you can't get it by that function

so you either make sure that you create that attribute before packing

or much much easier, just use Bind VOP in your shader to get sphereColor vector attibute you created
it should work for your current setup

the bind VOP works thanks Tamte.

I would like to make color variation on my instanced sphere.
What should be your method ?
FOr the moment I am just stuck …


edit :

Forget it, It's ok now.