An mdd manager node to use with flocks and instances

[merovingio]

It would be very useful to have a node to manage differences between instances, to use it for crowd. At the moment you must load many items with different mdd and assign them to the same instance manager. I think is a complex approach for large scene or for work with big floacks.

It should be able to do the following:

-loading mdd using random offset per instance
-instance of instance trees, recursive instancing
-replay speed based on velocity
-...

What do you think?

 

[mijaba]

you could attach a number of MDD Displacement nodes with different frame offset values to a gradient controlled by instance ID

 

[merovingio]

Yes, but there is no displacement output from the gradient node.

 

[OFF]

+1

 

[ianr]

+1,000

(sorry OFF, I instanced it in the poll)

 

[OFF]

Heh )