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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] I need help! => Topic started by: bibi5000 on 2019-12-13, 14:42:51

Title: Alembic cache
Post by: bibi5000 on 2019-12-13, 14:42:51

Is there a way to load an alembic cache? Right now I am using a vray proxy, which is causing problems on the render farm (some slaves do not load the .abc sequence - still trying to figure that one out). It would be nice if I could replace the vray proxy with something else. Any thoughts?

I'm on 3dsmax 2018, Vray 3.7 and Corona 5

Title: Re: Alembic cache
Post by: Njen on 2019-12-14, 03:13:51

You can import Alembics using Max's standard importer.

Title: Re: Alembic cache
Post by: bibi5000 on 2019-12-17, 09:26:25

3ds max can import Alembic objects and the transformation data stored within the alembic file, but not geo sequences. Am I right?

I am trying to load a .abc sequence of growing ice crystals I created in Houdini and render this sequence in 3dsmax 2018.4 using Corona 5.

The only way to load that sequence I can think of is using a vray proxy, set it to display full geometry, since the corona proxy does not load .abc files and the Corona Volume Grid loads only vdb data.

I am looking for a way to render my .abc sequence in Corona without having to rely on the vray proxy. Sorry, I should have been a bit clearer on that :)

Title: Re: Alembic cache
Post by: Njen on 2019-12-17, 21:38:09

Export an animated alembic. Max can load them just fine.