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I created this beautiful Plant to Tree Growth Animation at 30 fps using Geometry Nodes and just discovered that when i export the animation to Alembic (.abc), the animation goes kaput. I have no experience with alembic. You can see the leaves all scattered with huge sizes and the stem growing branches ahead of time without any leaves.

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Any idea what is going on? I think alembic supports geometry nodes.

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Basically, only what exists as a mesh is exported to another format (i.e. also the Alembic format).

Therefore, you would have to convert all instances into a mesh using Realize Instances and then export it.

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However, this solution only works in Blender 3.2+!

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  • $\begingroup$ oh my! you saved my life! my client would have killed me XD Thank you sooo much!! $\endgroup$
    – Harry McKenzie
    Jul 30, 2022 at 10:36
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    $\begingroup$ @HarryMcKenzie Well, I'm glad that you will stay with us here on BSE for a while and that you will continue to honor us with your interesting questions and answers :D $\endgroup$
    – quellenform ♦
    Jul 30, 2022 at 10:38
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    $\begingroup$ Yes! I definitely will. I'm having a lot of fun here! pretty much learned a lot while learning 3D stuff and blender for the past 5 months! and it's nice to have some awesome experts here like yourself :) $\endgroup$
    – Harry McKenzie
    Jul 30, 2022 at 10:50
  • $\begingroup$ btw the export works but in the materials view all the leaves are transparent, i can only see the branches and trunk but when i select the tree i can see the orange outline around as if the leaves are invisible. but its fine in solid mode. $\endgroup$
    – Harry McKenzie
    Jul 30, 2022 at 11:02
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    $\begingroup$ @HarryMcKenzie Oh, yes, you are right: I can confirm the behavior in Blender 3.1 ...probably one of the many bugs. But main thing it went well for you anyway ;-) $\endgroup$
    – quellenform ♦
    Jul 30, 2022 at 12:57

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