Duplication

There are currently four ways in Blender to procedurally duplicate objects. These options are located in the Object menu.

Vertices

This creates an instance of all children of this object on each vertex (for mesh objects only).

Faces

This creates an instance of all children of this object on each face (for mesh objects only).

Group

This creates an instance of the group with the transformation of the object. Group duplicators can be animated using actions, or can get a Proxy.

Frames

For animated objects, this creates an instance on every frame. As you will see on this topic’s subpage, this is also a very powerful technique for arranging objects and for modeling them.

• DupliFrames
  • Examples
• DupliVerts
  • DupliVerts as an Arranging Tool
  • DupliVerts as a Modeling Tool
• DupliFaces
  • Basic Usage
  • Scale
  • Limitations/Considerations
• DupliGroup
  • Basic Usage
  • DupliGroup and Dynamic Linking
  • Making a DupliGroup Object Real