Merge and maintain clusters?

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Kerro Perro
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Merge and maintain clusters?

Post by Kerro Perro » 17 Nov 2012, 19:21

Might be a long shot here but is it possible to maintain seperate cluster after merging? I want to "keep" the different input meshes as clusters but i seem to only have two options now: either no clusters at all or all the clusters get merged into one big one...

Any way to do this?

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Hirazi Blue
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Re: Merge and maintain clusters?

Post by Hirazi Blue » 17 Nov 2012, 19:46

If I understand your question correctly...
A simple way to do this would be to assign a separate material to each object as a whole before merging. By explicitly merging the materials you create two clusters (containing the materials) on the new Polymesh. Afterwards you can delete the cluster materials, keeping the clusters themselves intact.
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Kerro Perro
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Re: Merge and maintain clusters?

Post by Kerro Perro » 17 Nov 2012, 20:31

Now that is a perfect solution! Simple and fast, thanks!! :ymapplause: