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 access an Alembic velocity attribute?
I'm trying to get motionblur to work on an imported Alembic mesh.
I can see that the Color-Attribute ("Cd") shows up correctly inside Blender as vertex colors, but what about my velocity attribute ...
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How to wait for bpy.ops.wm.alembic_import to finish?
Quite a simple question I hope, I've been tearing my hair out with it for over a day now though. I'm trying to write a background python script that will import an alembic and then perform certain ...
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Blender 2.79b Alembic (abc) export
I have installed Blender 2.79b on Dell AMD laptop with Ubuntu 18.04. There is NO Alembic export available in the export menu. Then I installed same Blender on Macbook Pro with OSX and Alembic export ...
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Replace Alembic Cache Files from py
I need to change the FilePath of an already imported Alembic File Cache.
In the UI it is done from the Datablocks>Cache Files>File Path, but I need do it with PY + File Blend + New Path)
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How to make two alembic Mesh Sequence Caches working together
I would like to play two .abc sequences in one scene. However, they seem to be hating each other, so after importing second sequence, the first one stops playing. I've noticed that the object path is ...
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Loop alembic animation
I have an 4 frame animation made in Maya that i need in blender. Alembic wokres fine, but stops after frame 4, since there is no more animation. Is there a way i could loop the alembic file in blender?...
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How to export Alembic Mesh Sequence Cache to FBX?
I am making demolition animation for a realtime render engine that does not support Alembic, so I am trying to convert Alembic import from Blender to FBX, but only the first frame of the animation ...
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Exporting camera tracking markers from Blender
I am trying to use blender to do some matchmoving and then export the camera along with the tracking markers for use in other software. After getting a successfull track, I have created a vertex cloud ...
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Bake Mesh Sequence Cache to Keyframes or Shape Keys?
I have a Mesh Sequence Cache modifier that references a .abc file. Is there any way I could bake the modifiers' motion to the object so it doesn't have to reference the .abc file?
I'm doing this so ...
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how to know what has been imported after alembic import
I am importing an abc file like so:
bpy.ops.wm.alembic_import(filepath="myabc.abc")
But I want to then get what I have imported and do stuff with it.
I dont know whats in the file in advance - how ...
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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
When I import this ...
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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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Blender stuck at 100% on the first frame of animation
It renders, composites and saves the image just fine, but refuses to move to the next frame. GUI remains responsive.
It's a large scene (alembic animations, 7 million tris with hair on top of the ...
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How to export Blender model with animation and materials?
I have created a very basic model of a horror creature that I want to export and use in another Blender scene. The creature consists of two separate meshes and two crudely animated armatures. The ...
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Is it possible to export a sequence .abc (Alembic) files and then reimport it with the Mesh Sequence Cache modifier?
I have a object that changes geometry each frame.
Now I want to cache the mesh because the framecalculations are quite slow.
My idea was to export the frames to separate Alembic files so that I can ...
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How can I change the frame range in an alembic file?
How can I change the frame range in an alembic file?
I have an alembic file from Houdini and I want to use only part of the simulation in Blender, so I can't figure out how to take the necessary part ...
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GN: Exporting Plant Growth Animation To Alembic Incorrect
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 ...
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Marvelous designer alembic export and textures
I have a problem with marvelous designer and alembic export. I just "baked" my cloth animation in Marvelous Designer 10 and exported it as an alembic (ogawa). When I import my alembic file ...
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Offset Transform on top of Alembic Transform Cache
I have a Blender scene in which it has Alembic Transform Cache constraining the object. Somewhat the constraint is locking all transform and I wanted to be able to offset the transform like rotating, ...
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obj sequence to alembic format
Hello I'm quite new in blender.
I've been working on converting obj sequence to alembic format by using blender.
I've used 'Stop Motion Add-on' and 'obj sequence as shape keys' , but it seems like ...
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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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Is it possible to export animation cache data from Maya and apply it to a look dev mesh in Blender?
I'm currently setting up a pipeline at my company where our animators are animating our characters in Maya, and we want to use the powerful Toon Shader for Eevee in Blender to texture the look dev ...
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Assign Materials based on mesh name
our workflow for a job requires us to import alembic meshes from maya and render them in cycles.
I would like run a script that looks at the scene mesh names and assigns the corresponding material.
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Blender does not recognize Alembic file from Houdini
im pretty new to Houdini but a Blender user for almost 2 years now.
I made a Fluid Simulation in Houdini, exported the deforming mesh as an alembic file, but whenever i try to Import it to blender, ...
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How to start imported Alembic animation at a specific frame
How to? Imported .abc file starts at frame 1. I want it to start later.
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Geometry node which allow me to skip every odd frame in the object animation
I need help to build a node tree which would allow me to skip every odd frame in the object's animation. Basically, I need a tool that behaves just like a stepped modifier but in geometry nodes.
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How to correctly import whitewater particles from fluid simulation (FLIP fluids)?
I exported a FLIP fluids simulation to Alembic (.abc) and imported it into another blend file.
The fluid itself works fine however the whitewater particles are not visible.
According to the docs, I ...
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Python: Copy visual transform from object with constraints
i am working with an alembic file which contains points and movement information. for project reasons, i need the movement information in keyframes, so i am writing myself a script that grabs for a ...
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Alembic animation not rendering in Octane
does anyone know why my animated alembic mesh (vertexanimation) shows correctly in the viewport but is not rendered out. I am using Octane with the latest blenderversion.
Rendering in Cycles (GPU) ...
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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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How do I keep the Random Value node static on changing geometry? [closed]
I have an Alembic point cloud I'm trying to render as grains, but the random size keeps changing every frame because the point count isn't static. I guess I could use the seed input, but I have no ...
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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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Weird bug with Alembic & Blender 2.8 + Eevee
I am working on my second project with Blender and I have a very weird bug.
I import Alembic files created with Quill and I time correct it with expressions to reproduce the stopmotion look (6fps or ...
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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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