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As long as I know a Group Instance is an exact copy - not duplication - of another object which uses up less memory because Blender doesn´t have to read he geometry data twice.
But if a Group Instance copies the exact geometry data, why can´t I add a particle system? A particle system (hair) just needs the geometry, not the object itself for producing an hair system (not talking about hair modifier!!).
Is there any way to add a particle system without adding it to the original object?
Thanks all of you beforehand, and I wish you a happy new year!
NGCHunter2
Treat the group instance as a visual representation in a point in space of the original grouped objects (an empty that looks like the group). It does not exist as a mesh so you cannot edit it or treat it as an individual object
What do you actually want to achieve, give specific examples, demo files etc
I want to create rocks. Many, many rocks in my scene. So I want to model, at least, about 6 rocks. Than I would use Group Instances to fill the scene and save memory.
But I want some (!) rocks, not all of them, to have moss on. I found a pretty realistic looking and memory saving way to create moss using a particle system; but I can´t attach one on a Group Instance. Creating new rocks with moss would increase the memory usage (and my GPU can´t handle that much…), and it would look boring, because the moss appears only on the same rocks.
