You’re welcome, Gregg.
”…, what do you think?”
Well, obviously I like Link-Lists. :o) Over the past decade+ one of my observation is, that there are two kinds of artists in this regard, one who loves Link Lists more and others who prefer Hierarchy options. (Perhaps a small third group is there, who decides case based, which might be preferable ;o)
Certainly each option has its advantage.
As I never suggest Hierarchy nodes here in the forum, let me give you my perspective about. As long as you are the only artist working on such, and you have a standard set up (or something that helps you in an easy way perhaps a year later to know what you did), they are great and fast. However, as they are not dynamically, in terms of any changes in the Object Manager, adding elements or moving them, they are dangerous on the long run and in teams. Hierarchy Nodes are limited to a repeatable Iteration Path. Which makes them easier to understand after a while how they are “programmed”, but what is effected might be more cumbersome. Relatively easy to set up for large hierarchies, but also more limited. In any way, once they are set up, again, any change in the Hierarchy will disable the intended function. Yes, how to access a specific Texture Tag with this one in sync… I don’t even know how to get the Tag Iteration into sync. (In my file above, I have no problems with such in the Link Lists…)
Link Lists are easy to set up with the little “selection tool” since a while, and what ever happens to the organization in the object manager, they are pretty stable against such changes. To check two or more parallel lists against each other, if they are in sync, seems so much easier. There is my point why I use these and don’t encourage anything else.
Both have not feedback to the Object Manager, which is a big problem to know what is done.
Again, it is an artist call, and what ever works for an artist is the thing one should use, if the functionality allows a comparison at all in the first place.
My best wishes for your implementation.
Sassi