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[Netvudu]

hi there.
Trying to fix somebody else´s pipeline here  

Does anybody know if it´s possible to export curves from Maya, and how? The problem is that I have these hair guides created in Maya, but apparently the stupid Autodesk app doesn´t understand curves made of polygons(!!??)
so the usual exporting methods won´t work here. I was wondering how to export them. Any ideas?

[SpencerL]

Netvudu, on 22 November 2011 - 05:59 AM, said:

hi there.
Trying to fix somebody else´s pipeline here  

Does anybody know if it´s possible to export curves from Maya, and how? The problem is that I have these hair guides created in Maya, but apparently the stupid Autodesk app doesn´t understand curves made of polygons(!!??)
so the usual exporting methods won´t work here. I was wondering how to export them. Any ideas?

you can export .iges file format from maya which houdini supports.

[haggi]

Don't know if it works but now houdini and maya support alembic.

Or - a bit more complex - you can try the maya to mantra plugin: openMaya, but thats maybe a bit too extreme for your needs. The advantage is that you automatically get .geo or .bgeo files from your maya objects.

[Netvudu]

Thanks for the input guys.