I can work with that issue. just writing 3 different float attributes for every 
vector attribute I need. Stupid, but a workaround,….again. 

s.


Am 10.09.2014 um 21:21 schrieb Andy Goehler <lists.andy.goeh...@gmail.com>:

> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> as already mentioned Exocortex Crate does this reliable.
> See here: http://exocortex.com/blog/crate_custom_attribute_softimage
> 
> Just a side note, getting custom attributes from XSI into Houdini can be a 
> pain too and I’ve had much better luck exporting those from 2015 with its 
> onboard Alembic than with Crate.
> 
> Andy
> 
> On Sep 10, 2014, at 17:29, Sebastian Kowalski <l...@sekow.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am exporting some points into an alembic file from houdini to xsi and 
>> stumble on one issue. 
>> 
>> Transferring attributes works good for what you could call 'factory 
>> attributes' like P or v (we have to rename that to something with more than 
>> just one letter, cause it wont appear in xsi). 
>> But I also compute angular velocity (w) and couple other 'arbitrary user 
>> attributes', all vectors (3f). This suckers come in as single float value. 
>> Not even as a array of 3 values per point. 
>> 
>> As the same alembic file works like expected as re-import in houdini, I am 
>> pretty sure it is an eff up in xsi. 
>> Just want to make sure I am not doing something stupid. 
>> Anyone experience the same? 
>> Its with the 2015 version of xsi.
>> 
>> sebastian
>> 
>> 
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