Instances

Introduction

Instances are lightweight copies of an object that do not contain any geometry data, but rather maintain a link to the original object. Because each instance only stores a limited amount of data – such as a transform matrix and sometimes material assignment information – they have several advantages over regular copies:

• Instances use much less disk space for scene files.
• Edits to the original are automatically applied to all of its instances, making editing many identical objects much simpler.
• Instances use very little memory when rendering using Redshift and can significantly improve performance.

A scene with 1300 instances of a high resolution Buddha model (approximately 880,000 triangles per instance). Over a billion instanced triangles.

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