Instancing Shapes in Stride

If you want to instance a shape in Stride we first create the shape that we want to instance. We then can input the position data for the instances into the Components Input of the shape.

To be able to use the data from a spread as transformation data for the instances we need to convert the data from the spread into transformation data and then recollect it into InstancingSpreadComponent. The FromValue then constructs a spread that we need in the Components input.

To translate all the instances we can plug 3D transformation nodes like Scale(3D),Translate(3D) etc. into the Transformation Input of the base shape.

Example patch is available in the Help Browser in VVVV

Setting material values for each instance

If we want to create different material properties for each instance we can use ColorPerInstance and ValuePerInstance and plug them into the material node.