Holy Shit...

So if you remember, when I had all the characters in a shot, and the environment like grass and tree's, I had to split the render into three. Half of the characters with no environment in one, the other half in another, and the environment in a third. Then I'd stitch those together in Photoshop for the final shot...

Well, no more... After doing all the instancing replacements I've been doing over the past couple of days, I finally finished replacing all the duplicates. to test how well it worked, I put ALL the characters on screen and ALL the landscaping and ran the render... To my shock, it worked. One single render. All the characters. All the environment foliage... INSANE...

This is an absolute game changer.