unlimited amount of proxies; the proxy container

[^Lele^]

well, my tests so far, with around 150k objects (proxies) in the scene do NOT slow max down at all (2008-64).
unless, of course, one tries selecting and modify the properties (name downward) of them.
I am in the end going for a multiple objects approach, which seems to be working the best.
Whether that's the best approach i don't know, but it's pretty flexible and usable for stuff that needs no change (bushes and trees, for instance).
possibly a one-object container would make it easier, but i'm going to be using x-refs, ad that's just fine for this scenario.
thanks for the constructive critiques

[AlexDuche]

Its already done by VrayScatter www.rendering.ru

[duke2]

Its already done by VrayScatter www.rendering.ru

And it's nodelocked, and costs $400, and as already discussed it probably struggles to do more than 500k instances. We factored it into the cost of a project coming up so i'll be able to see then I guess!

[zoobadoo]

well, my tests so far, with around 150k objects (proxies) in the scene do NOT slow max down at all (2008-64).

same here, but around 500K of them my viewports get slow, max scenes get big and slower to load them. And i usually have a fow of those proxie clutters around. renders ok, but filehandling becomes an issue. unfortunately max also loads the 'invisible' xrefs, would be better if max did not do so until 'visible' was checked, or one pressed the render button.

was just discussing slowness in scripted filling of big area's as a result of max slowing down copying many objects (and using the IntersectRay()) on the area. good chance copying faces inside the mesh will be faster, saving the result as a big proxy would be the logical consequence... changing my mind, lele...

thanks for thinking along!

[zoobadoo]

And it's nodelocked, and costs $400, and as already discussed it probably struggles to do more than 500k instances. We factored it into the cost of a project coming up so i'll be able to see then I guess!

scripting will get the thing done also...