I had a feeling you're looking to do something like crowd or birds-flock animation :)
If you can use particles to instance the crowd, that would work pretty good. By anyway, Instead of loading the abc cache to each and every asset ( which will be slow if not deadly to your scene interactivity ) Try a different approach: 1. bring in ONE time the cache, let's call this asset "master_cache" 2. then distribute the cache to all the other assets by connecting the shapes nodes (outMesh to inMesh) or do a simple duplicate-instance. I believe duplicate-instance would be more efficient, but in your case you might need to use references... I don't know. hope this helps, good luck! On Friday, 17 January 2014 16:02:52 UTC-8, Panupat Chongstitwattana wrote: > > @Asi, Aevar. > > It's mainly for crowd animation. I wanted to see if I can reference > multiple instances of the same model, give them different materials and > then apply alembic cache to them. Geo cache works but I'm curious if > alembic can be used this way. > > Best regard. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/bc0a70b3-1a65-41aa-bbd2-88cc4c4c6352%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
