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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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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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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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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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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Subdiving Alembic Crashes Blender
So importing an alembic from Houdini and wanted to throw a subdivide modifier on it and every time it crashes blender. Can confirm the alembic can be subdivided in C4D
Here's a link to the file. Just ...
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Export/ Import alembic trouble / blender 2.9
I got some trouble with alembic export/import.
I tried to export and reimport a fluid simulation but when i do so the importet mesh is not animatet.
Further are all stages of the animation on top of ...
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Alembic eye mesh not following the character body
I'm trying to export Malcolm(Animschool rig) from maya to blender as an alembic file. But after exporting his eye mesh break the connection with the body and they come on grid in blender. Any valuable ...
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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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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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Clothes don't collide to its parent : a rigid body
Description of my scene :
I have a human face mesh (an alembic file in movement) and ropes made with single vert and whith cloths properties parenting to my face (as child)
When my face moves, ropes ...
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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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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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Vertex color Animation from houdini to blender 2.8
i am trying to export a alembic from houdini to blender. This mesh has a Cd atribute with an animation.
I was able to export a still frame using the ROP alembic node in houdini. I can use the vertex ...
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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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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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Set meshes for each frame of the animation?
When you export a cloth simulation as an alembic file and then import it again, you get a modifier on the cloth mesh called "Mesh sequence cache". The meshes in the sequence are read from file. What I ...
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Custom exporter and problems with matrix and rotation order
I'm trying to write a custom exporter for cameras from/to Blender, but I'm having some problems with rotations and rotation order. In my mind I should be able to extract euler values from the world ...
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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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Context issues while importing Alembic files in a plugin [duplicate]
I keep getting the context is incorrect error and the error is: Operator bpy.ops.wm.alembic_import.poll() failed.
I have tried all the solutions shared in this post and in the official documentation ...
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What is an Alembic Cache and can it be converted to fbx or dae?
Can anyone help me understand what an alembic cache is? and can I convert it to any other format like fbx or dae? I am specifically looking to bring it on the web and play the animation online ...
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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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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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How can I export baked fluid simulations that work in Xcode?
When I export a baked fluid sim to Alembic, it imports back into Blender just fine, but in Xcode, it's just a static mesh.
I've tried a few dozen different combos of bake and export options, and they ...
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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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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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Converting particle simulation into meshes for Keyshot
I created a particle simulation that emits icospheres with 0 gravity, but affected by a wind force field, with the intent to make it look like it's being blown away by the wind. I'd like to render ...
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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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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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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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How to export correctly mesh and armature of a character from blender to NUKE
I'm looking for a working way to export correctly a rigged character from blender to NUKE 11. I've tried a lot of formats,like :
ALEMBIC : it worked partially. It means that the mesh is exported ...
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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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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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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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Workflow to get particle animation into 3rd party renderer [duplicate]
I've built a particle animation I like in blender... basically like dust falling through the air. I want to import this to KeyShot for rendering.
I think I need to convert the particles to mesh, but ...
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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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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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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)
Search all ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Camera imported from alembic does not follow it's parent transformations in 2.79?
I came across a problem when i was working with blender files created in older versions of blender. I currently use 2.79.
In those scenes i have a camera sequence imported with alembic format. I ...
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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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How to properly transfer Blender animation to Maya?
I found this Curiosity rover from NASA, which is actually animated and is in blender format. I want to use this rover in my personal student showreel. That's the reason I want it to export, along with ...
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