Dupli Instancer

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 inputted vertices.

• In the Polys mode the instances will be placed with a incoming list matrices, being able to rotate and scale the instances.

Parameters & Features

Param	Description
Live	Processing only happens if update is ticked
Hide View	Hides current meshes from view
Hide Select	Disables the ability to select these meshes
Hide Render	Disables the renderability of these meshes
Base Name	Base name for Objects and Meshes made by this node
Random name	Generates random name with random letters
Select	Select every object in 3dview that was created by this Node
Collection	Pick collection where to put objects
Fast mesh update	It tries to update mesh in fast way. It can not update mesh at all in some corner cases. In case you notify some glitches in the mesh disable it (N-Panel)
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)
Auto Release	Remove children not called by this node
Clear Location	Clear base child location

Inputs

Child: Object(s) to instance.

Vertices: Location of instances.

Matrices: Matrices of the instances. (but scale is converted to uniform)

Limitations

It’s worth mentioning that because the faces duplication relies on the area of the triangle to determine the scale, that the scale is a scalar, and therefore uniform (x,y,z are scaled equally).

Examples

Setting 1.000.000 icospheres (whole node-tree update 0.069 secs)

• Generator-> IcoSphere

• Generator-> Random Vector

• Viz-> Mesh Viewer

• Text-> Stethoscope