forgot instances

[max montana]

hi, i have the problem that i have forgotten to make instances by copying the flowers of the balcony in a scene. the scene has 13 million polygons(flowers 12,5millions), and takes ages to render. before i did a project with 8 million polygons, copied with instances and it rendered perfectly fast.
as i have spent more than 2 hours arranging the flowers, i would like to find a workaround to make instances out of my copies.

[xenry]

you can use tools -> clone and align

[max montana]

thank you for the tip xenry. i can manage it to make instances from a referenze object with clone and align. a problem is, that the original - copied - objects stay in the scene and have to be deleted manually.

[Codi]

You should organize your scene properly, name all your old objects 'old flower xx' (Tools\Rename Objects) before creating the instances and now you will be able to select them all in a moment (Edit\Select By\Name).

[max montana]

good solution, thx codi

[claude_tnt]

instance replace script

try this script. it has worked for me in the past to convert copies to instances

http://scriptspot.com/3ds-max/instance-replace


claude