duplicate animated objects

[digital_technologies]

Dear Vantage team
Can you please inform me if the following request is something easy based on the fact that it already exists as a possibility when using chaos scatter in vantage.
When you drag drop an animated vrscene, like an animated tree, and you duplicate it , the animation of the duplicate is not working.
so you need to drag drop it again. instead if you scatter the vrscene even thousand of times it works perfect, super fast, very efficiently.
Can you please tell me if it is very easy to fix this.
Thnaks a lot

[vladimir.nedev]

Can you please tell me if it is very easy to fix this.

No, sorry, it's not very easy to fix.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[vladimir.nedev]

Hm, actually, the mesh that you are cloning, does it have an animated transform or is it only deforming (vertex positions are animated) ?
The second case might be somewhat easy to fix.

Edit: in any case it would be best if you send us a scene we can test the fix with.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[digital_technologies]

Dear Vladimir
The animated scenes are deforming vertex like speedtree , or animated people like anima 4d, or renderpeople, or skin rigged character,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HiC...ew?usp=sharing
Here you can find an animated teapot with noise animation of deforming vertices.
if you open the vrscene and duplicate you can see that the animation does not play on the duplicate. but if you scatter it you will see that plays on all instances amazingly.

[vladimir.nedev]

Ok, I think we can fix the deforming vertices case when cloning, although some of the examples you mentioned probably have transform animation as well.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[digital_technologies]

anima 4D walking for instance you are right that have transform animation added , which I understand is not easy to fix, but most of the animated things that we are interested are just deformation animations.
For instance being able to fast duplicate an animated tree is extremely helpful, to create the a landscape or forest..
Thank you very much for your reply and will to help

[npg]

You've probably seen the new animated trees in Cosmos in our release announcement. Their animation works with duplication and scattering. I know these assets are still few, but you could try them out.

[vladimir.nedev]

Ok, I think we can fix the deforming vertices case when cloning, although some of the examples you mentioned probably have transform animation as well.

This fix is in the 2.5.1 build that we released last week.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev