Kerkythea instances?

[Eleandor]

I'm not really sure where to post this question.

I've recently started using kerkythea, and although it mostly seems pretty intuitive, I don't really understand how kerkythea instances work.

Here's what I have:
Several files each containing 1 high poly tree
Main file containing several low poly trees

Here's what I want:
When kerkythea renders the main file, all low poly trees are replaced by their high poly equivalents (in the other files)

I figured kerkythea "instances" may have something to do with this.
So is it possible to do this, and how?

[Gaieus]

This would be called "proxy" instances in SU which are replaced by high resolution / poly instances in Kerky. To my best knowledge, this is not (et) available in Kerky. Tomasz, developer of the exporter plugin (which should do this "linking") has just developed a similar system for Thea, Kerkythea's "commercial sister" so eventually the new technology may once be ported to Kerky as well but definitely they will first develop new things for the pay app.

@eleandor said:

I'm not really sure where to post this question.

We have an "extensions" forum down the index where I am moving your topic, too as it may get better exposure to the developers over there...

[Eleandor]

So what does the "SU2KT: Replace by proxy object" and "Export options: instanced" do? Does Thea have a separate extension or is SU2KT used for both applications?

[notareal]

Maybe this helps http://www.kerkythea.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6773
More tutorials at tutorials master list http://www.kerkythea.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5720

[Gaieus]

Yes, Pentti, thanks!

This is still a sort of "workaround" for the moment (and needs to be repeated with each component definition). The ideal would be some automated procedure of course. Maybe one day.