scatter and instance and memory

[UBIKmh]

We had a strange problem in the office. We tried to do about 6000 bushes on a mountain using scatter with 1.50 sp1 on MAX 9(instanced checked). We got an out of memory warning and Vray/max crashed (11 gig). We tried several options but it didn't work. Then we instanced all the bushes by hand and used Glue to fix them on the mountain and that worked like a charm. Anybody know what might be the problem.

Marc

[vlado]

If you used the Scatter compound object, it doesn't really make instances - it takes the base object and replicates it (copies) it many times. Which is why you ran out of RAM.

To make actual instances, you could use Peter Watje's Scatter utility or a similar tool.

Best regards,
Vlado

[UBIKmh]

Yes, we figured something like that happened. Pretty dumb, huh?
I'll have a look at Peter Watje's scatter tool.
Thanks.

Marc