Questions tagged [alembic]
Alembic is an open computer graphics interchange framework. Alembic distills complex, animated scenes into a non-procedural, application-independent set of baked geometric results. This distillation' of scenes into baked geometry is exactly analogous to the distillation of lighting and rendering scenes into rendered image data. Use this tag for any questions relating to the usage of Alembic within Blender.
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How to import Alembic Vertex Colors from Houdini correctly?
I've exported a simple scene from houdini with a few geometries, and written into the vertex colors, Cd, for each mesh a different gray value like:
(.1,.1,.1)(.2,.2,.2) ... etc
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Exporting bendy bones/shape key animations?
How can I export these animations into another program? I don't need the rig itself in these other programs, I just need the mesh's animations to be exported, if that makes sense. Is this possible, ...
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Is it possible to use Alembic in BGE?
I am thinking to make some cool looping animation, bake it into Alembic and have it working as BGE demoscene animation (looping). But is it possible to use Alembic animation in BGE?
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Importing particle simulation from Houdini to Blender
I have a particle simulation in Houdini that I'd like to import into blender. The particle simulation has instanced objects on every particle in Houdini, so I've tried just exporting it from there as ...
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Assign multiple objects one to a frame inside one track of a geometry cache?
So, i'm pretty new to this, so please excuse me if this is wrong place, or there is a better way to do what i am doing.
Overview: Lets say I have 20 objects that together make up my fire animation (...
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exporting blender ABC to 3DsMAX with working Material ID
Well the question lives between blender and max community so I need to ask here just in case somebody also knows the answer.
When exporting objects ( a cube ) with different 3 materials assigned to ...
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Exporting particle simulation as Alembic - animation issues
I need to export a particle simulation with an emission setting of 1000 particles and lifetime 50 as an Alembic file for Keyshot.
The issue is when I import into Keyshot, it only imports a portion ...
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Is Alembic the correct option for me?
I use Blender for Minecraft animations. I make my maps in Minecraft and export them with Mineways in OBJ format. I use quite big maps(around 3 GB). Blender can't open big files or takes a long time. ...
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Monolithic alembic animation file not playing smoothly
I am generating an ocean sim in houdini, and exporting it to a monolithic alembic file.
When I load it back into houdini, it plays smoothly.
i.e. it plays every frame.
However, when I import it into ...
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Can Blender Alembic Export Out Animated Lines (Point and Edge, no Poly Face)?
I am trying to export (bake) out animated lines mesh that I generated using Sverchok using Blender Alembic.
When imported the Alembic back, all I got back is points. Is this Blender known Alembic ...
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Particle Alembic File Export not working as intended
I made A Particle System, which I want to export as an Alembic. But when I import it back in or into another software to check if it is working, I'ts completely different. I made it looping, but ...
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How to export model as alembic file with texture material (color)?
I have created a 3d model with animations. But when I export it as an alembic file, the color/texture I have added goes away. I made the model using geometry nodes. There are a total of three objects ...
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Dynamic Paint Irrespective of Time Stretching
I have this Dynamic Paint setup which influences the mapping of some droplets. As the splash happens, it wipes the droplets away based off of the merging of the two Weight Maps.
The only problem is ...
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Export vertex colors in .abc alembic
I am unable to export an alembic with vertex colours.
I have a cube with some vertex colours on it that I would like to export as an alembic but on reimport, in a different file, the colour attribute ...
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Reading Alembic files from disk
Houdini user here. In Houdini when we load alembic files, it just reads from disk.
Meaning when you save your Houdini scene, the alembic won't increase the file size because it just reads it from disk....
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Can I model a character in blender, export it to maya, run xgen to create hair, then export it back into blender for animation?
Can I model a character in Blender, export it to Maya, run xgen to create hair, then export it back into Blender for animation?
I need an help to understand how can I export xgen hair to Blender and ...
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Get Alembic Frame range from imported file via python
Is it possible to use python to get the frame range stored in an imported alembic file? I assume it's on the cache datablock but I can't see anything that would yield this information.
many thanks
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Marked edge (freestyle) on alembic model not showing in render
I'm currently using blender 2.9
I'm having trouble with using freestyle line on an alembic, everything works apart from marked edges, and unfortunately I really need it.
The first time I tried using ...
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What is the best way to take animations from Maya to Blender?
In our studio the animations are done in Maya and they are rendered in blender Eevee. Eevee saves a lot of time in rendering but the time is wasted in setting up the files for render. Right now we ...
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Hair dynamics hair jumps, jitters, and flies around
How can I control the hair dynamics so that the hairs mostly maintain their original shape but also move around slightly with the model when animated?
My current hair setup causes the hair to fly ...
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How to display Alembic "Override Frame" animation in the animation graph?
I have set some keyframes for "Override Frame" in the MeshSequenceCache modifier.
Unfortunately the animation has a ease-in ease-out, so I want to take a look at the curve in the graph-...
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It's possible to create a 3D or 2.5D video/animtation using the alembic file from photogrammetry?
my interest is about how create fast renders with the images aligned by photogrammetry. I think it's appropiate to use the alembic file (*.abc) from a a photogrammetry software such as meshroom.
I ...
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.PLY animation to alembic/cache
I know similar questions have been asked elsewhere here but, the most recent answer is over 3 years old and we've have b2.8 drop in the interim.
I have captured some depth footage using an Intel ...
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Active Rigid Body alembic sequence from RealFlow to Blender does not work
I have a problem with making certain .abc sequence work in Blender.
Imported Soft Body .abc sequence from RealFlow to Blender works just fine.
Imported Active Rigid Body .abc sequence from ...
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Can imported Alembic be set to collision and affect cloth?
I thought I could just import an abc file, set it to collision and have its movement affect my Cloth-Ball on collision.
Just, it does not collide. Just goes through the cloth.
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How do I create an Alembic geometry Cache or animation from a series of meshes
I have a series of meshes that I would like to export to unreal and have them read as a geometry cache or animation. I have about 60 meshes and I would like each mesh to be a single frame of an ...
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How to export Alembic in selection sequence or batch with Python script
Currently, I would like to automate some Alembic export tasks, by creating a script. How can I do this?
I know this script (but not sure how to make it happen):
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I can't export the animation of the .abc file after having added a texture atlas?
I have an alembic scene (.abc) file from a butterfly with a wing animation. I did not make it myself.
I imported it into blender to be able to create a Texture Atlas.
When I create a Texture Atlas ...
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Curve GeoNodes | Export UV attribute > Alembic
I built a geo node to create a lace that appears along a curve.
I need to export this animation to alembic to render in Keyshot. But Uv are not exported as they are a named attribute, not a mesh with ...
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Shortest Edge Paths, using Position Distance to Empty not working with imported Alembic meshes
I have an alembic file that I've imported, created using an object and camera track from SynthEyes, that I am trying to use in a geonodes setup, with Shortest Edge Paths/Edge Paths To Curves.
The ...
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Alembic particles exported freeze
Problems with the export and import of alembic animations.
I do something similar. as in the tutor. The author uses animation export of particle system in alembic. Then this animation is imported to a ...
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How to give .abc (Alembic file) particles random color and emmsive values?
I made a particle and volume simulation in Embergen and exported them both in their respective file formats, volume to VDB and particles to .abc.
I want to give the particles in Blender a random color ...
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Exporting & reimporting particles as alembic replaces meshes with cubes & empties
I'm trying to export a particle animation as an alembic file.
When using the following settings to export it, and then re-importing that file into blender again, some of the meshes are in completely ...
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Export particle hair system as alembic with using nurbs path as instance object
Good evening. I want to create stylized hair and export it as alembic file and I've got a cool idea: what if I speed up the process using technique from this tutorial, then I'll create particle system ...
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Read atributes from an alembic?
I'm trying to export geometry from Houdini to Blender, as far as I know alembic is the way to go.
But, even tho I have multiple attributes in Houdini, I only receive in Blender the color attribute (Cd)...
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How Do you combine geometry when exporting as an alembic file and keep the animations of each object?
I Cant seem to join my mesh as one as it gets rid of all animations so is there a way of exporting as an alembic file and combining the geometry so that i have one mesh that has different animations ...
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How to make blender respect visibility of objects imported from alembic
We are trying to figure out a workflow for importing the results of a pedestrian simulation into Blender for visualization. During the simulation, pedestrians enter into the simulation at various ...
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Export alembic frames to OBJ
I have an alembic file. Is it possible to export the individual frame data to OBJ files with blender script?
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Get a mesh from a frame of a MeshSequenceCache in script
As the title says, I need help to understand how to access individual meshes from an object with a mesh sequence cache modifier that was created by importing an alembic animation. I want to access it ...
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Convert animated 3d curve to Grease Pencil
When I select the curve and do convert to -> grease pencil the animation is lost. This is really frustrating.
Is there any way to maintain the animation of an animated 3d curve? In my case I use an ...
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Add custom properties to objects before alembic export
I want to add custom properties on objects and export them with alembic, then read them from another software.
like in maya AbcExport -j .. - attr foo -attr bar ..
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Organizing materials on a mesh alphabetically
Let me set this question up a bit to establish why you would even WANT to do this.
When exporting from DAZ to Blender, I use the Diffeomorphic plugin and the Sagan Alembic plugin.
Say I port a Genesis ...
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Is there a way to precache an Alembic sequence on RAM for faster playback?
I've been working with large Alembic files on a project recently, some in excess of 3 or 4 gigs of data and thousands of frames.
I notice that viewport playback takes severe hits with every ABC object ...
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export looped alembic files
Is it possible to export looped alembic files? I exported then imported an alembic object (a deer) from Blender into 3Ds Max sing this method that maintains working IDs: https://blender.stackexchange....
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Two mesh sequence cache working together at the same time
I have imported in my project two different Alembic files with two mesh sequence cache that have to run at the same time. The problem is that when I run the animation the first one that I have ...
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How to properly apply an image sequence texture to an imported alembic file?
I've imported an alembic file of a fluid simulation from Houdini and am trying to apply a sequence of image textures (displacement maps that I have also exported from Houdini for the ocean spectrum, ...
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Alembic sequence only renders the first frame
I'm trying to render out an alembic sequence. Rendering any single frame works fine, but rendering the entire frame range results in the first frame being repeated over and over.
This is what my ...
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How to select individual parts of alembic (abc) file in Blender
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How can we select individual parts "mesh" or parts thereof in an alembic file in Blender?
We've tried the "edit mode" ->P and then selecting by loose parts.. No luck.....
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Mantaflow Alembic export for compositing
I m new in bender and use it for flow simulation, I m trying to export a composition did with mantaflow to get the animation fusion 17.
i only have the domain's cube and not the simulation. Do you ...
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Exporting camera crane alembic
I'm using blender's crane camera rig to get a shot however I need to export the camera to an external program but because the camera is being controlled by the crane it doesn't have any transform ...
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