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Hierarchys in ifd


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Hi,

I'm just trying to use some ifd files for mantra rendering. I could see that if I have instances of object hierarchys or object subnets, every single object is instanced instead of the subnet itself.

e.g. I have

subnet
  object1
  object2
  object3

--> results to instance definitions like

instance1 subnet/object1
instance1 subnet/object2
instance1 subnet/object3

instance2 subnet/object1
instance2 subnet/object2
instance2 subnet/object3

...

in mentalray mi files I have something like this:

object1
object2
object3
instance igroup 
  object1
  object2
  object3

instance1 igroup
instance2 igroup
instance3 igroup

what is much more efficient especially if you have larger hierarchies of several hundreds of objects, instanced hundreds of times.

So my question is: Is there a way to so a similar grouping in ifd files?

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