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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] Feature Requests => Topic started by: Mariopex on 2019-02-20, 15:21:05

Title: Corona Proxy and Standalone to Read Alembic Files
Post by: Mariopex on 2019-02-20, 15:21:05

Hello Everyone!

One feature that we feel would be very helpful is the ability to import alembic files inside the corona proxy just like the vray proxy does! Also having the option to read alembic files inside corona stand alone can open lots of doors for us to write some nice scene assembly GUI for the standalone.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Corona Proxy and Standalone to Read Alembic Files
Post by: maru on 2019-02-21, 14:55:38

Thanks for reporting. We'll see what can be done.

Title: Re: Corona Proxy and Standalone to Read Alembic Files
Post by: Mariopex on 2019-02-21, 20:14:40

Awesome Thank you!

Title: Re: Corona Proxy and Standalone to Read Alembic Files
Post by: bibi5000 on 2020-02-20, 14:12:37

+1

I think this one is really important.

The ability to read alembic cache sequences is pretty important to get caches of deforming meshes into Corona. 3dsmax can load single .abc files per default, but that does not help when it comes to 10+ gig fluid sim caches. Alembic files and caches are becoming more and more important for trouble free transfer of animation and mesh data between different 3D apps.

Until now, I am using the Vray proxy to do this. When setting it to display full geo, Corona can render the .abc caches loaded with vrayProxy, but this leads to problems on render farms.

It would be a nice addition to the Corona Volume Grid and enable us to render any sort of madness coming out of Houdini.