What is Point Instancing?

Scenegraph Instancing:

• What we’ve been talking about is scene graph instancing

• Good for reusing complex components (like full shelf assemblies, robots).

• Instances are part of the readable scenegraph; each has a “root prim” that’s editable, but the subgraph is read-only. Point Instancing:

• Designed for massive numbers of simpler items where the overhead of an instance outweights the benefits of reuse.

• Example: a tree with 100,000 leaves

• Even more efficient, but you lose some ability to edit each instance individually.