cgcris Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Hi guys, What's the best setup to get alembic cameras into houdini? Currently using file> import > alembic scene, but I am left with no camera options. I would like to control things like the near clipping, and be able to scale the camera based on the scene scale.. any pointers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 you'd be much better off building a camera rig and using python to populate it parameters: http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini15.0/hom/abc_extensions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcris Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 Hi Michael, Thanks for your reply, do you mean creating a new camera and linking/setting is value from the alembic file? Seems like a good think to try, just want to make sure I am approaching it the right way Thanks, C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 you'd probably want to create an otl that wraps up the alembic transform node and a standard camera with the alembic dictionary queries. you can do a standard import alembic (from the file menu) and then disassemble the parts you need, change the expressions in the camera to pull from a specified file, etc. they really ought to have this stuff built into houdini. the "import" model is just so not-houdini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 honestly I'd make one if I had the time what I'd do is make an HDA that just has a camera inside with a little null network for things like offsets etc then a field to point to an abc file everything can be extracted from the abc with python ideally this rig would be your main camera, for key framed anim, imported data (abc, fbx) etc. this way you can control how external formats are imported/exported Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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