There's an unexpected issue when the code above is run.
If the instances have a modifier stack, Max will duplicate those modifiers on top of the reference.
Here's an update to that code that works around it.
I'm not certain if there is a more elegant solution, but this gets the job done.
(
theMods = #()
myArray = #()
fn InstToRef instArray =
(
instancemgr.makeobjectsunique instArray #individual
tmpNode = copy instArray[1]
referencereplace instArray tmpNode
for i in 1 to theMods.count do
(
addModifier tmpNode theMods[i]
)
delete tmpNode
)
myArray = selection as array
for i = myArray[1].modifiers.count to 1 by -1 do
(
append theMods myArray[1].modifiers[i]
deleteModifier myArray[1] i
)
InstToRef myArray
)
