V-Ray clipper and replicators

[kubbek]

V-Ray clipper now works well with replicators but I cannot choose a replicator as included/excluded object. It is just not displayed on the list. Could it be corrected? Now if I want to perform clipping on replicator only I have to create a group of everything else in the scen and use it as excluded object. Not very convenient although it works

Cheers,
Jakub

[kubbek]

Just found out that this subject was discussed already in an earlier topic: http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...hlight=clipper

It seems that this bug is not easy to solve but I just wanted to say it would be great if V-Ray clipper could include/exlude replicators...

[EDELVIZ_ARCH]

Yes, but this would be awesome if at some point Vladimir could work it out.
Hope it will be possible at some point down the line.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[boyan]

Hey people,

Thank you for the posts. I have a simple workflow for that case. Duplicate a "Replicator" -> Go to Item -> Replicator -> Freeze replicator. Next steps select all instances right click and from the pop-up menu choose change type to "Mesh". Select all meshes, right click and from the pop-up menu choose "Merge meshes". Go to V-Ray Clipper and add new mesh to the option "Clipper Mesh".

BR Boyan.

[kubbek]

Hi Boyan,

it would be great if it could be that easy but working with replicated grass that way is not an option I started to use that method for replicated grass clumps that are going through the kerbs.

Cheers,
Jakub

Hey people,

Thank you for the posts. I have a simple workflow for that case. Duplicate a "Replicator" -> Go to Item -> Replicator -> Freeze replicator. Next steps select all instances right click and from the pop-up menu choose change type to "Mesh". Select all meshes, right click and from the pop-up menu choose "Merge meshes". Go to V-Ray Clipper and add new mesh to the option "Clipper Mesh".

BR Boyan.

[EDELVIZ_ARCH]

What Jakub said - we use replicators when we want to have tens of thousands, usually millions of instances. And to convert them into meshes simply is not an option at all - performace wise, file size wise etc.
This basically knocks out what is great about the replicators....

[boyan]

Hey Jakub & Jonathan,

Appreciate your posts here. Yep, I agree with you but also trying to make some workaround. About the performance in a case that "converted mesh" has huge size and geometry impact over UI I suggesting to convert it to Vray proxy. Next, you can use with a V-Ray clipper.

BR Boyan

[vladimir.nedev]

Just found out that this subject was discussed already in an earlier topic: http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...hlight=clipper

It seems that this bug is not easy to solve but I just wanted to say it would be great if V-Ray clipper could include/exlude replicators...

Actually this issue was discussed in this thread : http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...ing-is-desired

I have it logged for fixing.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev