"RobF" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht 
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>
> There are about 75 different characters each of which has three poses. 
> With 500
> instances, there are sure to be clones next to each other.
>
> My interest in crowds was inspired by a photo of a crowded New York street 
> that
> I wanted to render. Most meshes are a few hundred MB each, so I came up 
> with a
> method of 2D billboards each with a pre-rendered image on it. With a few
> tricks, I was able to render thousands of people with less than 600kB of 
> memory
> per instance.

Ah yes, that makes sense. I have used that billboard trick before, before I 
started with Poser in fact, by using photographs. Interesting to combine it 
with Poser figures. In fact the results are much better and easier to 
control

>
> I've set up a web page with more information and a zip file containing the 
> macro
> I used with a set of 8 billboards.
> See: http://fitzel.ca/dart/crowds/crowds.html

Thank you! I shall have a look at it!

Thomas

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