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I saw Marcel, Dan and others talking that is possible to render a copy of certain object in several places but the scene has just one object, so how it is possible? I just want to do a forest along the launch base, can we use that method in true particles so the forest looks more natural (using those parameters from Prodigy's tutorial to make grass)?

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what you are talking about is called instancing of objects and sorry to say but truespace only supports instancing of materials.
If you need a free version of a render engine that does it Kerkythea supports it and if you spend money there is a whole lot of others like vue that do that.....
one of the main reasons why i use itis instancing see the whats next thread that splinters opened a few days ago.
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No real instances in TS. The best for a forest seem Vue. but you can use real trees then simple objects with map and alpha map behind. It depend of what you want to show. On Caligari forum i explain how to duplicate the robot. different method. The goal was to have a time to render very good to do animation. real instances in vue can do wonderfull thing but that need more time to render a good image with thousand trees. It depend too of your hardware...

Ah, I'll use alpha masks then.