Re: ice to maya workflow

2018-05-03 Thread Jonathan Moore
Chris, If this is still causing you problems, the missing part of the jigsaw is likely to be UserData in Maya. This is used by the renderer to pick up the per particle attributes and map it to the renderer. This is a simple example for Redshift in Maya (but the tree looks identical for Arnold but

Re: ice to maya workflow

2018-05-03 Thread Orlando Esponda
Hello Chris, I'm not sure what kind of attributes are you trying to send from Soft to Maya, but this video may help (or not hehehe) Softimage ICE instances to Maya

Re: ice to maya workflow

2018-05-02 Thread Chris Marshall
Thanks a lot Morten!! That works! Superb! So I can see my particles in Maya, I just need to figure out how to add some of the attributes that they had in soft. Cheers On 2 May 2018 at 11:21, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > Chris, I have just been there – same issue. A couple

Re: ice to maya workflow

2018-05-02 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Chris, I have just been there - same issue. A couple of bits are missing n the Exocortex installation info. You need to create a folder directly in the C: root and name it ExocortexCrateAlembic and unzipped or copy the maya version folder directly into it - like this:

Re: ice to maya workflow

2018-05-01 Thread Chris Marshall
Hi Jon, No not yet. I'm updating my soft licenses and have had issues. But I looked at it this morning and was following installation of the maya .mod files but as I've never done any installation of maya plugins before, I was struggling. I was trying to follow the Exocortex instructions but it

Re: ice to maya workflow

2018-05-01 Thread Jonathan Moore
Chris, Did you manage to get your ICE particles into Maya? jm On 30 April 2018 at 11:02, Chris Marshall wrote: > > Hi, > Is there a workflow for getting ice particles into Maya? > Thanks > Chris > > > > > If you'd like to unsubscribe and stop receiving these emails

Re: ice to maya workflow

2018-05-01 Thread Chris Marshall
OK Thanks Jonathan, I'll take a look. Cheers Chris On 30 April 2018 at 11:28, Jonathan Moore wrote: > > Alembic, but you have to use Exocortex Crate in Maya, the native Alembic > importer dosn't import correctly (probably because it doesn't recognise the > attribute

Re: ice to maya workflow

2018-04-30 Thread Jonathan Moore
Alembic, but you have to use Exocortex Crate in Maya, the native Alembic importer dosn't import correctly (probably because it doesn't recognise the attribute names). I've collated all the Exocortex Crate builds up to Maya 2018 (maintained by the community).