schiho

@jsmack Thanks a lot! That's really useful! One last question regarding that, is there an easy way of instancing a single reference and merging it? Basically If an artist was to take a chair and place it multiple times?

@jsmack can you provide an example? If I place two times the same reference, it is going to store the two same alembics two times in memory right? But I would like to use the same reference just with multiple transforms (instancing).

@AndreasWeidman
Thanks for the StageManager tip! Do you mind sharing an example of how to go after the stagemanager? Like how would you pass that to an instancer node as prototypes? Wouldn't you need a name attribute?


Where I'm going with this, is similarly to the obj node "instancer" where you can specify an "@instancepath" attribute.

Hi goldleaf, but you are talking about dropping a reference lop to bring in one alembic. but I want to bring in a gazillion alembic files and assign it to instance points.