I'll eat my words, then. :)

That's good to know. Thanks Deke.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]> wrote:

> We fixed this in Nuke 6.1 so readGeo properly sees point clouds.  You only
> have to change the "object type" from "Mesh" to "Point Cloud".  If this
> doesn't work then something may be broken and you should send the fbx into
> support(pending it is fbx 2010 or earlier).
>
> It also works the other way around.  A point cloud exported to FBX from
> Nuke will show up as a bunch of locators in Maya.
>
> -deke
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 17:40, Ivan Busquets <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I might be wrong, but I don't think ReadGeo can read "Maya locators"
>> exported to an FBX file.
>>
>> I thought the point cloud option was just to read all vertices of
>> geometry as points.
>>
>> For locators, you'd need to import the FBX into an Axis node (although
>> then you can only read them one at a time)
>>
>> To bring in the full point cloud from a boujou file, you could use the
>> "import_boujou" tcl script that comes with Nuke. Or, this python-ported
>> version:
>>
>> http://www.nukepedia.com/python-scripts/import-export/importboujou/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> are you using fbx 2010(nuke doesn't support 2011 or 2012)?  You should
>>> be able to pick point cloud from the drop down in the readGeo.  Also I
>>> suggest you export the point cloud to a separate fbx file from the camera.
>>>
>>> -deke
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 15:10, Bill Gilman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey all
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to track a shot in Boujou and bring the camera, point cloud
>>>> and ground plane into Nuke via a Maya FBX file.  What do I need to do to
>>>> indicate that the cloud of locators in Maya are a point cloud that the
>>>> ReadGeo node can understand?
>>>>
>>>> Also, the camera comes in fine but none of the geometry makes it over.
>>>>  Any help would be appreciated, thanks
>>>>
>>>> Bill
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