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MASH: Reproductions and instances

MASH: Reproductions and instances - Maya Tutorial

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MASH: Reproductions and instances

- [Voiceover] In this video, we're gonna talk about the differences between MASH Reproductions and MASH Instances. For all of our examples so far, we've been using MASH Reproductions, which is kind of MASH's own instancer-style way to copy geometry out to the MASH points. You know, we've been using this MASH repro mesh, we've looked at the MASH repro node, and that's the basic way to get geometry in our system. And it's very flexible, it's really easy to get objects in and out of our list here, and just sort of the default MASH way of doing things. But we can hit some limitations with this, and that mainly comes when we have a lot of objects and our Poly Count just goes up a lot. So, I'm gonna go here under Display, Heads Up Display, and I'm gonna turn on Poly Count. I'm gonna press Play. Rewind here, press Play. We only have 12,000 faces in our scene right here, right? Not so much. And everything is playing fine. We're using a couple spheres moving around with repro mesh. I'm gonna…

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