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# 1 25-06-2013 , 04:13 AM
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Model replication

Okay, hopefully this will make sense. I've been modeling this boxing ring with seats around it. I modeled one chair and then just duplicated it 100 times. This has made my file huge and slow. Is there a way I can just have all the seats show up in the render, but not have to duplicate them in the actual scene. If not, thanks anyways. user added image
 
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# 2 25-06-2013 , 12:05 PM
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Yes, use instancing instead of duplicating the geometry. This will only create one shape node and a whole bunch of transform nodes. Then in your viewport, you can either hide them or use bounding box mode to speed things up. There might be a better solution, but you can try that.
 
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