Hello,
I'm building a digital asset where the user controls and modifies a bar graph, that can have up to 100k bars (the reference image is showing just a basic example).
Each bar is built upon a point whose f@value attribute drives the height of the bar.
The system is already pretty responsive, with almost zero lag, but in order to squeeze even more performance and efficiency, I was wondering if I somehow can pack and instance the bars of the graph?
1) As far as I understand, I cannot use the pscale attribute to scale a primitive only in one dimension, right?
2) So I was wondering if I can pack and instance each bar as full-length primitive and then using some coloring or texturing trick to simulate different heights? Do you have any idea how to accomplish this?


Thanks for any help

Hello,
you can use v@scale for non-uniform scale instances. And yes, you can pack your bar and it should work. In a copy to point SOP there is check box Pack and Instance, in case if you haven't known it yet.

thanks a lot!