Milan Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 I'm either blind or overworked, but I can't for life of me find any information about exporting alembic data from houdini via python rather than using alembic ROP. Does anyone have any pointers whether this is possible in houdini or are python bindings missing completely? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbarua Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Didn't try but there is something: http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini14.0/hom/abc_extensions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oslo Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 (edited) The simplest way it will be write function that will build temp rop network with alembic rop inside. From doc for alembic extensions Contains utility functions for extracting information from Alembic files. Edited July 2, 2015 by oslo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milan Posted July 3, 2015 Author Share Posted July 3, 2015 Yeah I found the alembic extensions but as Oslo mentioned, it's of no use for exporting. Feels like guys at SESI left the alembic integration at a halfway point, which is a bit shame. Creating dop network with alembic rop should of course work, but it feels like an ugly hack to something that I (apparently incorrectly) consider one of the basic functions of a software. Oh well, can't be Christmas everyday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 yeah, it would be nice if sesi included the standard alembic python bindings as part of houdini. but i guess then they'd need to supply the source code and then end up supporting it, so i could understand why they didn't. it's also possible that the houdini integration is actually done by the alembic team and not sesi. there is houdini-centric code in the alembic repository which makes me think it's possible that's where the integration originated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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