5 VRProxies grouped then the group instanced millions of times. Good or bad?

[Morne]

Hi all

If I have 5 vrproxies grouped, and the group get instanced, does that defeat the purpose of proxies or does it not make no difference?

[vlado]

It does not make a difference with regards to memory usage and render speed.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Morne]

what if the 5 proxies were not proxies, but just instanced geometry?

[vlado]

They will render as instances as well (probably faster than proxies too) if you have the "Default geometry" option set to "Auto" or "Dynamic".

Best regards,
Vlado

[Morne]

so then is the proxy concept "yesterday" and we don't need to use proxies anymore? In what situation will we still need to use proxies?

[vlado]

The proxies are useful when you have to keep your scene size small, especially when the objects have more polygons (e.g. several hundred thousand). Having a few different trees in RAM instanced as actual 3ds Max geometry can make scene navigation very difficult, and it also uses more RAM - the objects need to be stored once in the 3ds Max scene, and a second time as render geometry. While 64-bit machines have more memory, it is all to easy to overflow that too

Best regards,
Vlado