https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/how-to-find-out-instance-or-duplicate/m-p/10966525#M3763 <P>Thank you so much！That helps a lot.&nbsp;</P> Wed, 23 Feb 2022 04:27:22 GMT maeyoshi 2022-02-23T04:27:22Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/how-to-find-out-instance-or-duplicate/m-p/10966309#M3760 <P>Hi, I was just wondering about how to find out if an object is a duplicate or instance of another object. Any ideas?</P> Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:06:35 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/how-to-find-out-instance-or-duplicate/m-p/10966309#M3760 maeyoshi 2022-02-23T00:06:35Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/how-to-find-out-instance-or-duplicate/m-p/10966344#M3761 <P>You can name the instances "Copies" , you can also color them in the Outliner.</P> Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:36:45 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/how-to-find-out-instance-or-duplicate/m-p/10966344#M3761 damaggio 2022-02-23T00:36:45Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/how-to-find-out-instance-or-duplicate/m-p/10966511#M3762 <P>If you turn on "shapes" in your Outliners "Display" menu and expand the objects. You'll see that instances are linked to the same shape node, while copies have their own shape node.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Bildschirmfoto 2022-02-23 um 05.08.55.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1028559i0DCCEEAD2BAECB17/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="Bildschirmfoto 2022-02-23 um 05.08.55.png" alt="Bildschirmfoto 2022-02-23 um 05.08.55.png" /></span></P><P> </P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Bildschirmfoto 2022-02-23 um 05.11.04.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1028560i544D108AFFD8D314/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="Bildschirmfoto 2022-02-23 um 05.11.04.png" alt="Bildschirmfoto 2022-02-23 um 05.11.04.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I hope this helps!</P><P> </P> Wed, 23 Feb 2022 04:11:30 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/how-to-find-out-instance-or-duplicate/m-p/10966511#M3762 Kahylan 2022-02-23T04:11:30Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/how-to-find-out-instance-or-duplicate/m-p/10966525#M3763 <P>Thank you so much！That helps a lot.&nbsp;</P> Wed, 23 Feb 2022 04:27:22 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/how-to-find-out-instance-or-duplicate/m-p/10966525#M3763 maeyoshi 2022-02-23T04:27:22Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/how-to-find-out-instance-or-duplicate/m-p/10966526#M3764 <P>Thanks！I’ll try that.</P> Wed, 23 Feb 2022 04:28:11 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/how-to-find-out-instance-or-duplicate/m-p/10966526#M3764 maeyoshi 2022-02-23T04:28:11Z