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prt reader in ice?

Posted: 17 Jan 2018, 18:23
by mattmos
Just wondering if there is any way to do this - have a prt sequence created from a bifrost sim, and wanted to bring it into ice to modify and render.

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Re: prt reader in ice?

Posted: 17 Jan 2018, 18:52
by rray
Do a seach for "kies" in the resource section. It's for Softimage 2010, but might be worth a try. Other than that no idea.

Re: prt reader in ice?

Posted: 17 Jan 2018, 19:05
by mattmos
Thanks for the reply, on linux as well just to complicate things unfortunately.

Re: prt reader in ice?

Posted: 17 Jan 2018, 19:14
by rray
It looks like here it was solved with some custom coding:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... 4N5kdQjUFU

The icecache module mentioned is at the bottom of this page:
http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/ind ... ile_Format
(wiki seems to be up again!)

also attached just in case..

Re: prt reader in ice?

Posted: 19 Jan 2018, 07:05
by sant0s
If that does not work or is to slow, you can also go over houdini (when non-commercial it also works with the Apprentice version I think) , export as .bgeo (i think it was .bgeo or one of the other formats) and read in Softimage with emReader. :)

Re: prt reader in ice?

Posted: 19 Jan 2018, 08:37
by mattmos
I couldn't get any of Eric's lovely tools to install on centos7 sadly :( But thanks for the suggestion. I wish they ran Houdini here too.

Re: prt reader in ice?

Posted: 19 Jan 2018, 08:49
by owei
Hey Matt! I can convert it for you, if not to large ;)

Re: prt reader in ice?

Posted: 22 Jan 2018, 13:35
by mattmos
Thanks for the offer Oliver! I think we're ok, moved up to 2018.2 and could get an alembic out which will do the job for now.

Re: prt reader in ice?

Posted: 22 Jan 2018, 13:48
by owei
Great! I guess you mean 2015.2..2018.2 would be so sweet ;) Good luck!

Re: prt reader in ice?

Posted: 22 Jan 2018, 13:55
by mattmos
Ah no, I did mean 2018.2 - went back into maya to mesh and export the alembic, which I couldn't do in 2016.5... Feels a bit dirty admitting that!

Re: prt reader in ice?

Posted: 22 Jan 2018, 15:04
by owei
Ah sorry..on the Maya end..took that wrong...