Hi Dwayne,
I followed your directions for the NLA workflow and it seems to be working great! Thanks so much for that information. I guess the NLA is used extensively in character animation, right? I’m also hoping that the performance will be better than straight duplicates, even though with the linked file I’m seeing the entire object hierarchy in the outliner, compared to only one object when it’s instanced.
One more question: I’d like to have one element of my animated contraption be a different color in each of the linked duplicates. It’s just a simple Principled BSDF shader – nothing complicated. Is this possible with Library Override? Or Node Groups?
Finally, I joined the CG Cookie Discord if that would be more efficient communication.
Thanks!
-Scott
