Instancing ? Hard code or Plugin idea ....

[ggaliens]

Meh ... I'm not sure I agree wholehartedly Wegg.

Would depend a lot on the objective I would say.

A counter argument might be that something as small as leaves should be done
as procedure displacement or texture or some non instancing tricks.

I don't have much experience with other apps and instancing ... I can only imagine what I want for my scene with my minds eye.

Sweat spot might be having a crowd of people in distance at 10 characters and 15,000 polys texture per character and then instance a bunch of those around and about.

Instancing does not work thart well for me with my current approach because it still requires a degenrate WEDS object and that means many WEDS object in scene ... which in itself can be a problem. Maybe some day ... someone will do it better in Wings3D.