Dupli Instancer Lite

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Functionality

This node exposes the Blender functionality of Instancing on object Vertices or Faces to the Sverchok node tree being able to display many copies of the same object with a very low memory impact.

The Node has to main modes Verts and Polys.
  • In the Verts mode the instances will be placed at the parent vertices.

  • In the Polys mode the instances will be placed at the parent faces.

Parameters & Features

Param

Description

Show instancer in viewport

Show instancer geometry in viewport

Show instancer in render

Show instancer geometry in render

Show base child in viewport

Show base child geometry in viewport

Scale Children

Scale children instances (only in Polys mode)

Align with normal

Align Instances with vertex normal (only in Verts mode)

Auto Release

Remove children not called by this node

Inputs

  • Parent: Instancer Object(s).

  • Child: Object(s) to instance.

  • Scale: Instances scale (value per parent).

Limitations

This node can work without being connected to any other nodes but due the logic behind Sverchok update system the node will not work if there is not any link in the whole node-tree

See also

Blender instancing: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/scene_layout/object/properties/instancing/index.html

Examples

Basic usage:

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