Hi all! I am looking into realizing Alembic support in Blender. The biggest issue on this topic is the Alembic streaming. Alembic is not a standard importer/exporter, but can be used as a read-only cache file.
My ideas are to use a placeholder (like an empty) and parent all objects that are inside the alembic archive. On frame change the data of the objects will be refreshed. I think that in the current architecture this is the most doable thing, but it has some drawbacks. The objects are not read-only, they can be edited, but on a frame change they will be refreshed. We can make the child objects not selectable in the 3d editor, but when doing simulations you need to be able to select one. Are there other ideas to handle this issue? Greetings, Jeroen _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers