There was a bug all through Nuke 7(fixed in 8) where if the alembic file
doesn't contain a childBounds property then it would crash even though in
the spec this is optional.

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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Dan Rosen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am having some success and some pretty bad bugginess with Alembic.
> Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this and has any work-arounds.
>
> If I hide child components within a ReadGeo node, the other remaining
> visible pieces will transform to a random scattered mess. This can be
> remedied by using the 'reload' button and then all is well and the geo is
> back in the expected positions. The problem then is that I am getting
> Segmentation Faults and crashing every few times in testing this process.
>
> Maybe this is fixed or better in Nuke 8?
>
> thx
> Dan
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Dan Rosen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I got this to work after some trial and error. I had success after
>> cleaning up my Maya scene and exporting ALL via Alembic vs. just selected
>> items. I was also exporting only frames 1-1 which was maybe also causing
>> weirdness. I set the render globals to 1-10 and let it drive the export.
>> It's working now. Thanks for the help.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Dan Rosen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ron,
>>>
>>> I cannot seem to get the initial ReadGeo node to create separate ReadGeo
>>> nodes per parent. Do Maya groups qualify as parents? I've attached the
>>> pop-up. If I select the groups that I want I do not get separate nodes in
>>> my Nuke flow-graph for some reason. I'm using Maya 2014 sp4 and Nuke 7v10.
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Ron Ganbar <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>> 1) You can. Load the cameraTracker or your geo in one Viewer input (say
>>>> no 1). Then load your footage in another Viewer input (say no 2). Then you
>>>> can do a compare between the two. If you load the camera into the
>>>> properties bin, then you can also lock the 3D viewer to the camera and see
>>>> everything as it gets aligned.
>>>> 2) Alembic is fully supported. As you bring in an Alembic file with a
>>>> ReadGeo node you get a pop up panel asking you how to import. You can then
>>>> choose what's a parent, which will be imported as a separate node.
>>>>
>>>> R
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ron Ganbar
>>>> email: [email protected]
>>>> tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK]
>>>>      +972 (0)54 255 9765 [Israel]
>>>> url: http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Dan Rosen <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Howdy Nuke Users,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am doing some 3D projection work in Nuke and have a couple of
>>>>> questions. Sorry for the basic questions, but I'm working remotely and
>>>>> trying to vis some stuff rather quickly. I'm working in 7v10 on OSX 
>>>>> 10.9.4.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Can the 3D view in the Viewer can be used as like a perspective (or
>>>>> any) camera in Maya. I'd like to orient my main shot camera by looking
>>>>> through it. Is there a way to access the viewing camera transformations,
>>>>> rotations and lens? I see the '3D' tab in the Viewer settings, but that
>>>>> doesn't seem to get me what I need.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) I have imported a Maya scene for set geo with full hierarchy. Can
>>>>> Alembic imports be used to move individual objects that are imported via
>>>>> one .abc file? I can select different geo and hide them, but I don't see
>>>>> any transformation handles, etc. I can understand why you wouldn't want
>>>>> anything to be moved around in your Nuke scene vs. Maya, but it would be
>>>>> nice (and maybe this is already happening in Nuke 8)
>>>>>
>>>>> thx
>>>>> Dan
>>>>>
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