Nicholas Ralabate Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 (edited) Hey gang, I am confused about best practices with exporting entire scenes from Houdini. I noticed that if I use File-Export-Alembic to export my entire scene to Alembic all of my top-level nodes that are just an alembic import SOP are imported fine... although their groups are renamed to something like "alembic_1_1" or something crazy. Whereas all of my top-level nodes that consist of an alembic import SOP and an convert SOP are not imported fine -- they are listed in the scene graph but are not drawn in the viewer. However they do retain their original group names like "DirtyMetal" etc. How can I get the best of both worlds? I want to both see my geometry in the viewer and also have the original group names. The only clue I have is that in the former case when I middle-mouse click it tells me I have an "Alembic Packed Geometry". How do I convert from polygon to "Alembic Packed Geometry"? I don't see that option in the convert SOP. Alternatively, is this a dumb workflow? Is there a more feature-rich way to do this than File-Export-Alembic? Part of me wants to give up and install the USD plugin for the Houdini-to-Katana transfer but I'd really like to figure out what I am doing wrong. Edited January 11, 2019 by xxyxxy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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