I've got a model that I've been working on that uses a lot of greebles. Currently I have the greebles in their own Scene subnet, and then each greeble component in it's own geo container. When I use them I just object merge them into the current geometry, and transform and merge them in. What is a hassle is that if I want ot insert one, I need to traverse up the network, look the various greebles (I've got about 50 so far), pick one, remember the name, then go back to where I was, and object merge it in.
What would be really nice to have is a DA that I can plop in, where I can pick the greeble number, and then pull in that greeble, and maybe a scale factor as well. What would be the best way to do something like this? Would I just build one DA with all 50 networks in it, and then just pick one? Would that be really “expensive” memory wise?
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OK, here's a sample hip file of what I have now (no DA). I've trimmed down the number of greebles to save space and made a little example that just uses one of them. Each greeble object is named g1, g2, gN. What I'd like to do is create a DA that would somehow contain all the greebles (g1-gn) and by entering a number, or maybe a drop down, I could pick which of the greebles would actually get output by the DA.
So the question is how do I do this? What's the best way to contain all the different possible geo shapes, but only output one? If you put all the various networks into a DA, but only use one of them in the output, do the unused ones still consume memory? My concern is that if I do that it will get unwieldy having all these things around in a scene where you're using hundreds of them.
So the question is how do I do this? What's the best way to contain all the different possible geo shapes, but only output one? If you put all the various networks into a DA, but only use one of them in the output, do the unused ones still consume memory? My concern is that if I do that it will get unwieldy having all these things around in a scene where you're using hundreds of them.
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Writing each greeble out as a geometry file is probably the best way to go.
You could just place a bunch of bgeo files in a directory and then have an asset that created a menu based on all the files in that directory so you could choose which ones you wanted. It would also be fairly easy and straight forward to update them or add new ones.
You could just place a bunch of bgeo files in a directory and then have an asset that created a menu based on all the files in that directory so you could choose which ones you wanted. It would also be fairly easy and straight forward to update them or add new ones.
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