1 Trillion Triangles Tutorial

Tutorial link -> [link]

This title sounds better than "Instancing tutorial". I should have made it three trillion for a perfect alliteration

Yes, its an instancing tutorial. With instances, you can safely reach, and exceed, one trillion triangles in Blender. To learn more, read the article

Also, please let me know if I made any mistakes, typos, didn't explain something properly, etc.

About the image

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There are 3 million trees and 416,040 triangles per tree. That's 1,248,120,000,000 triangles worth of trees. One and a quarter trillion. A bit dense for any reasonable scene, but I'm showing off, so it's ok.

I let it go in Cycles (cpu mode, lol) for two and a half hours, and it got to 110 samples.

Before I get too carried away, I must note that I was heavily inspired by [link] . Not as many triangles, but his images look much better