Sunday, September 30, 2012

You know you have a son when...

So blender nation had free clone troopers and my son wanted to see what 1 million looked like.  I dupliverted 280,000 and slowed blender to a crawl, so I just copied an instance 10,000 times, here's only 10,000, as close as I could get to a million.... yeah I know, this movie ain't ever getting done with so many tangets, but hey, why not....

Edit: So last night I got dupliverts working and I maxed out at 280,000.  I'm going to try the VBOs with the array modifier next (thanks for the input)


7 comments:

  1. To make 1 Million, and keep Blender humming, go to user preferences, choose the system tab, and check VBOs. Then go back to the main window and keep making clones!

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  2. also you can change the object display type to bounds - it will reduce the usage of memory.

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    1. Win7-64
      4 gigs ram
      blender 2.63.17 r49355
      Video card stinks.... ATI 4870. My good card is in my render pc for cycles.

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    2. Oh, yeah it's an old q6600 quad too, You could do this on pretty much any machine.

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  4. Thanks, don't know if you can reach the million with 4 Gb but... who knows...
    It's a great job. Good luck ;)

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  5. Hi! I just saw that the Rss of this website is functioning in a right way, did you all the properties by yourself or you simply left the initial settings of the widget?

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