Cosmos assets are not block instances? (large scene file size)

[Micha]

Hi,

I create a scene with a lawn area where I used ~5 models of grass and flowers. I copied the objects often over the area and wonder that the file size increase more and more. I checked an object and it's an "open mesh" and not a block. Wouldn't be better if any Cosmos object would be a block? Or is the recommended workflow to create blocks before make mass scenes?

-Micha

[konstantin_chaos]

Hi Micha,

Cosmos asset copies are treated as instances by V-Ray in all cases.
You will not gain much by adding them to a block before copying - from a rendering standpoint.
On the other hand this might help you keep your Rhino files smaller.
The renderer-side handling should be just fine if you do so.

Thanks for letting us know about this.
We'll look into ways to optimize the file size.

Konstantin

[Micha]

Right, it's only about the file size and maybe the display pipeline of Rhino. I wondered why my simple scene with a grass lane was grown to a 700MB file. Maybe every added asset to a scene can be automatic converted to a block.

Micha