Houdini to Softimage, animation with UV Alembic

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Maximus
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Houdini to Softimage, animation with UV Alembic

Post by Maximus » 01 Feb 2017, 11:11

Hey guys, friend of mine sent me an animated procedural object with UV, format is Alembic.

Using SI2015 importing the animation does not seem to import the UV data. The animation is fine, but the UV simply are not there.
When i try to import the same alembic file into maya, it reads both the animation and the UV.

is there something to do on Softimage part to read the UV?

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Re: Houdini to Softimage, animation with UV Alembic

Post by mattmos » 01 Feb 2017, 12:35

Have you tried using crate to import the alembic?

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Re: Houdini to Softimage, animation with UV Alembic

Post by Maximus » 01 Feb 2017, 12:49

mattmos wrote:Have you tried using crate to import the alembic?
crate was discontinued i dont have it also i think it was not updated so i dont think it will work, been years, i checked the website.
I just thought SI 2015 had good alembic by default, but apparently not

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Re: Houdini to Softimage, animation with UV Alembic

Post by mattmos » 01 Feb 2017, 12:53

It was released open source and there is a plugin for 2015, so it may work:

http://exocortex.com/blog/exocortex_cra ... pen_source

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Re: Houdini to Softimage, animation with UV Alembic

Post by Maximus » 01 Feb 2017, 22:10

wow that comes as a great new to me, thanks i'll try

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Re: Houdini to Softimage, animation with UV Alembic

Post by Maximus » 02 Feb 2017, 00:39

yeah it worked perfectly, thanks again, saved my life! and big thanks to Ben and Exocortex for making it available!

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