That's ok - I didn't take it as such, and thanks for the wow. :-)

 

The great thing about these little demos is that it throws up questions.

Also I have no idea how much my viewer knows about 3D. Many will know more about this subject and see improvements.

 

I should come clean and state that there are only 32 unique models, the rest is down to instancing and copying. I used a variety of techniques.

I hate multipass with a passion. That doesn't mean I won't use it - but for me it's a last resort.

This stubborn attitude got me into problems with epsiode 7 (see ealier post), which believe it or not is a single scene file in most cases! (multiple thousands of houses in one scene) - the downside was that I had to reduce to 1% of original size to make the scene file workable, and this led to rendering problems. (No shadows).

 

Anyway - this scene is a precursor to episode 8 which has a load of people walking about outside the walls of "the new city". That is my motivation for this scene.