Smart Duplication [Quick Tip]

[@MetricZero]

Huh, cool. Been using Blender for 3 years and never heard of the group instances. That seems really useful.

[@LarsMezaka]

its really great! You can even layer them... i sometimes use that for foliage - use instances of a leaf, bunch them together into a small cluster of leaves and then bunch those together into a huge array... and it all uses just the single instance

[@AirstreamingStargazer]

Thanks for the tips. Great for newbies like me. :)

[@rustycwright]

Very nice, thanks. I never knew that about groups and creating new instances of a group. One thing for newbies (and forgetful people like me) to watch out for is that if there's a material on the object then it's the same material when you use the shallow copy so when you change it on one the others get the same change; I keep forgetting to click that number thing (users) when I want them different.

[@megamaster7667]

You can change the position of the pivot if you go into the object settings under group there is a triangular button. If you click it you can select set pivot to 3d cursor or something like that

[@LarsMezaka]

thats good to know! thanks

[@robertr.4234]

Gutes Vid! Bin Anfänger und solche Tipps helfen enorm

[@LarsMezaka]

Freut mich =) hoffe die nächsten sidn ähnlich hilfreich

[@Gnoccy]

Are you sure you've got the deep and shallow copy terminology right? In programming we use the same terms, but the other way around. If you copy a list, but not the elements inside it, so that the new list references the same objects as the original one, that's a shallow copy. If you copy a list and all the elements inside it, so that the elements in the new list are also copies of the ones in the original list, that's a deep copy. So I would have expected that in the context of 3D modeling, copying an object and all the vertices inside it would be a deep copy as well. While copying an object, but not the vertices inside it, so that the new object references the same vertices, would be a shallow copy.

[@LarsMezaka]

Ooops... my bad. Yeah somehow i managed to switch the terms. I am really sorry.

[@LarsMezaka]

i fixed it in the video description... i don't think it is necessary to reupload the video, is it?

[@owlnight]

Lars Mezaka nope don’t thinks so.. now people know there is this feature and if they really want to know that they will look it up!