primary_visibility for Instancer

[hypotheticalinc]

I'm trying to write a script that will turn off primary visibility for all objects exported to a .vrscene from Max. It doesn't look like there's a primary_visibility option for Instancer objects, is that correct? I have visible=0 working, but that prevents shadow casting which is something I need.

Use case is

1. export scene from max to .vrscene
2. run script on .vrscene to change all primary_visibility to 0
3. append that scene to another scene to get a fast matte pass (using deep image) including shadows

Is there any workaround for this?

[vlado]

You should be able to turn off the primary visibility on the Node plugins that are referenced by the Instancer plugin - does that work?

Best regards,
Vlado

[hypotheticalinc]

Yes that does work - it looks like the node being instanced doesn't have a primary_visibility parameter when exported, so when I did a simple string replace it wasn't getting picked up. Adding "primary_visiblity=0;" parameter to the definition solves it.

thanks!