topic Re: how to convert instancer to polygon or object in Maya Forum

how to convert instancer to polygon or object

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:01:51 GMT

I tried using options from modify. Its not working. need help

Re: how to convert instancer to polygon or object

ray — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 15:29:04 GMT

The command you used converts instance objects (objects duplicated as instances with the duplicate special command) into geometry, not the particle instancer.

I don't know if Maya has some tool available for baking particle instancer into geo, I see many people are using a script, like this:

http://www.sigillarium.com/blog/lang/en/726/

Re: how to convert instancer to polygon or object

mspeer — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:53:18 GMT

Hi!

You can't convert Particle Instances to Polygons.

But MASH can do this (Bake Instancer to objects) and you can connect nparticles to MASH:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2017/ENU/?guid=GUID-4CAEABB4-2D1B-473B-B5BD-F2FB00AE8CB4

Re: how to convert instancer to polygon or object

mspeer — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 06:23:40 GMT

Hi!

I might need to add here that this MASH tool of course also works with the Particle Instancer node (it's the same Instancer node as used for MASH).

Re: how to convert instancer to polygon or object

iekomedia — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 19:45:03 GMT

Hello can you explain how the Mash instancer to geo works. I have a scene or rather you can read my post from the link below. it looks like its working but nothing shows up in outliner during processing and I believe while waiting it crashed so I don't know how far it got. but considering the lack of information, would be hard to tell if its working or how it works. Thank you!

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-dynamics/trying-to-convert-a-nparticle-instancer-to-polygon-and-then-to/td-p/8321873

Re: how to convert instancer to polygon or object

pixelwash — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:59:01 GMT

I didn't understand how to use MASH to "import" the nParticle instances, and convert them to geometry either, but I did find another MEL script on Highend3d which still worked with Maya 2018. https://www.highend3d.com/maya/script/instancer-baking-for-maya

(To those that don't know how to get this to work, simply open this script in Notepad, copy it, and paste it into the MEL script editor (after first clearing the editor's display completely). Then select the script in the editor, and select "Save Script to Shelf" in the editor File menu. Select your particle node, and the shelf, and I found there was no need to check anything to do a basic instance to geometry conversion. It takes a while though if you have tens of thousands of instances.

Re: how to convert instancer to polygon or object

la19c.djimenez — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 04:59:53 GMT

I used it in maya 2022and still works! still takes a while but works perfectly : https://www.highend3d.com/maya/script/instancer-baking-for-maya

Re: how to convert instancer to polygon or object

andymc4997 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:32:36 GMT

Hey everyone,

Any way to do this with Maya '24? the High End 3D link is broken, and the InstancetoGeo python script gives me this error:

# Error: Missing parentheses in call to ‘print’. Did you mean print(…)?

I thought I found a slick way to simulate rice filling up a container, but now I'm at a roadblock :/.