Getting Instances Created Outside of Verge3D

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2024-02-23 at 8:11 pm #70971

masj
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Hi!

I have a scene set up in Blender with several sets of instanced objects that share the same geometry.

In Verge3D, just curious if there is a built-in method somewhere that can help get all instances on demand for given a single instance, without necessary having to do something like traverse the scene and compare each object’s geometry’s UUID (i.e. in Blender, you can go the other way and get all transforms using a given shape).

I also noticed that the geometry type of my instanced objects in Verge3D seem to be “BufferGeometry” and not “InstancedBufferGeomtery” – just want to confirm that this still means that all the objects are instances and not duplicates.

Thank you!

2024-02-23 at 8:32 pm #70972

xeon
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I am sure there is but you could just create some Collections in Blender and store your instances in those collections and then just reference the collection by puzzle or code.

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2024-02-23 at 9:07 pm #70973

kdv
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masj wrote:

just want to confirm that this still means that all the objects are instances and not duplicates.

your objects are clones sharing one geometry but they are rendered individually (several render calls). they are not instanced meshes (one render call for all).

masj wrote:

and not “InstancedBufferGeomtery”

it’s not used any more. InstancedMesh is used instead.

masj wrote:

just curious if there is a built-in method somewhere that can help get all instances on demand

just put them all into one collection. easy.

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2024-02-24 at 1:00 am #70988

masj
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Thanks. If that’s the case, that’s clearly one option, yes (noting that this will still require traversing the scene, as far as I can tell, so same difference ).

Thanks for bringing my attn to ‘Instanced Mesh’ – good to know.
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