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  • Published 11 Nov 2020

Improve collection instance ( Render Visibility )

The blender has such a wonderful thing as collection instance. With it, you can save computer memory. But I personally use it as an object duplicator when I need to add a lot of objects that contain a lot of detail.

But it would be easier to use a collection instance as a duplicator if it were not fully linked to the original collection. If it was possible to make it possible to turn off the visibility of the original collection in the render but at the same time leave all duplicates visible in render, then it would be much more convenient.

I'll clarify now. If we have a collection with a complex object, and we need to duplicate it many times, then we use a collection instance. But we cannot remove the original collection from the render and we have to make it part of the rendering, so if we remove the original collection from the render, then the collection instance will disappear.

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XZS
11 Nov 2020

4 Comments

michael

I believe you can just click the checkbox on the left of "Collection.001". Then it's gone, but the instances will stay.

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XZS Author

* @michael * Yes, it works thanks.

zhixson.xbdi

It should be possible to put the original inside another collection and turn that one off is it not?

XZS Author

* @Zach Hixson * To do this, you need to disable it from the View Layer, and not from render. But if you need to change something in the object, then you will need to enable the view layer.