Thanks Thomas! I'll see if I can get in touch with them :-).
-- Jeroen Hoolmans Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Monday, February 18, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Thomas Volkmann wrote: > Hi Jeroen, > > thumbs up! > When you dive into it be sure to check this out: > http://www.exocortex.com/alembic > That is what lots (most?) of Softimage/Max/Maya is using for Alembic workflow. > These are really nice guys, and they probably can provide you some information > to get you started (Helge's mail is on that page). I can imagine that they > have > some interest, that a Blender Alembic is compatible with their suite. Could > be a > win/win situation. > > cheers, > Thomas > > > > Jeroen Hoolmans <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> hat am > > 18. Februar 2013 um 02:16 > > geschrieben: > > > > > > Hey guys, > > > > I'm fairly new to the Blender codebase, but I am really interested in > > getting > > Alembic into Blender as a personal project. More information at alembic.io > > (http://alembic.io) > > So far I got Alembic compiled on my OSX system, haven't tried windows or > > linux. > > > > Some things that I noticed right away: > > > > - OpenEXR's dependency ilmBase is in common with Alembic, however it has be > > upgraded to 1.0.3 (not sure what version is currently included). > > - It brings HDF5 as a dependency. > > - Boost 1.51.0 breaks a test of Alembic (no big deal though), Alembic was > > tested with 1.44 by the developers. > > > > > > I'd like to talk about the integration in Blender. Erwin94 (sorry I don't > > know > > your real name) suggested to start with extending the mesh cache modifier. > > Note that Alembic is not a pure Geometry cache format, it can cache the > > entire > > scene inside a single file, including lights, camera's, curves, > > nurbssurfaces > > and even custom data. > > > > So I'm looking for a more general solution for integrating. > > > > --Jeroen > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
