Re: Alembic trouble again
The operators just have a time property with an expression that reads all the controls from the time control for ease. Instead you could just add a '*T*' expression and it will update the frame (time). And say you want to slip the cache by 5 frames and your framerate is 25 - the expression would be *T + ((1/25)*5)* Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk* On 6 May 2015 at 17:28, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: The Crate documentation is kind of slim so I don't know the proper anatomy of alembic in a scene. The operators are gone - the time control remains. How can the operators work without the time control? I just tried deleting the time control and animation stopped evaluating. Morten Den 6. maj 2015 kl. 18:02 skrev Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com: Have the operators gone or just their links to the time control? If they still exist... you could simplify it and not rely on a time control Simon Reeves London, UK * si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com * * www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com * * www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk * On 6 May 2015 at 16:32, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: In the scene root - I was actually thinking of trying to put it in the model and see how that works. A different idea is to plot the animation to the mixer, which I would be quite happy with, but initial attempts have failed as it doesn't find any parameters to plot :/ Morten Den 6. maj 2015 kl. 17:21 skrev Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com : Where does the alembic time control live? On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 11:20:05 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: I have a heavy model with refmodel sub parts - onto this I import alembic animation data attaching it to existing nodes. This works fine so far. Saving the scene and loading it again I find that the animation is gone. I am guessing the alembic file is evaluated before the refmodels are loaded, thus throwing it off. Can this be the case, and how can I force loading refmodels before the alembic file? Morten
Re: Alembic trouble again
Thanks for the explanation. Do you know how to select the items with an alembix_xform op, say from a selected set of alembic ops? I can figure out how to select the ops, but not the nulls under which it lives. Morten Den 6. maj 2015 kl. 18:37 skrev Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com: The operators just have a time property with an expression that reads all the controls from the time control for ease. Instead you could just add a ' T ' expression and it will update the frame (time). And say you want to slip the cache by 5 frames and your framerate is 25 - the expression would be T + ((1/25)*5) Simon Reeves London, UK si...@simonreeves.com mailto:si...@simonreeves.com www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk On 6 May 2015 at 17:28, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk mailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: The Crate documentation is kind of slim so I don't know the proper anatomy of alembic in a scene. The operators are gone - the time control remains. How can the operators work without the time control? I just tried deleting the time control and animation stopped evaluating. Morten Den 6. maj 2015 kl. 18:02 skrev Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com mailto:si...@simonreeves.com : Have the operators gone or just their links to the time control? If they still exist... you could simplify it and not rely on a time control Simon Reeves London, UK si...@simonreeves.com mailto:si...@simonreeves.com www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk On 6 May 2015 at 16:32, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk mailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: In the scene root - I was actually thinking of trying to put it in the model and see how that works. A different idea is to plot the animation to the mixer, which I would be quite happy with, but initial attempts have failed as it doesn't find any parameters to plot :/ Morten Den 6. maj 2015 kl. 17:21 skrev Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com mailto:ethivie...@hybride.com : Where does the alembic time control live? On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 11:20:05 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: I have a heavy model with refmodel sub parts - onto this I import alembic animation data attaching it to existing nodes. This works fine so far. Saving the scene and loading it again I find that the animation is gone. I am guessing the alembic file is evaluated before the refmodels are loaded, thus throwing it off. Can this be the case, and how can I force loading refmodels before the alembic file? Morten
Re: Alembic trouble again
The Crate documentation is kind of slim so I don't know the proper anatomy of alembic in a scene. The operators are gone - the time control remains. How can the operators work without the time control? I just tried deleting the time control and animation stopped evaluating. Morten Den 6. maj 2015 kl. 18:02 skrev Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com: Have the operators gone or just their links to the time control? If they still exist... you could simplify it and not rely on a time control Simon Reeves London, UK si...@simonreeves.com mailto:si...@simonreeves.com www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk On 6 May 2015 at 16:32, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk mailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: In the scene root - I was actually thinking of trying to put it in the model and see how that works. A different idea is to plot the animation to the mixer, which I would be quite happy with, but initial attempts have failed as it doesn't find any parameters to plot :/ Morten Den 6. maj 2015 kl. 17:21 skrev Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com mailto:ethivie...@hybride.com : Where does the alembic time control live? On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 11:20:05 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: I have a heavy model with refmodel sub parts - onto this I import alembic animation data attaching it to existing nodes. This works fine so far. Saving the scene and loading it again I find that the animation is gone. I am guessing the alembic file is evaluated before the refmodels are loaded, thus throwing it off. Can this be the case, and how can I force loading refmodels before the alembic file? Morten
Re: Alembic trouble again
Where does the alembic time control live? On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 11:20:05 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: I have a heavy model with refmodel sub parts - onto this I import alembic animation data attaching it to existing nodes. This works fine so far. Saving the scene and loading it again I find that the animation is gone. I am guessing the alembic file is evaluated before the refmodels are loaded, thus throwing it off. Can this be the case, and how can I force loading refmodels before the alembic file? Morten
Re: Alembic trouble again
In the scene root - I was actually thinking of trying to put it in the model and see how that works. A different idea is to plot the animation to the mixer, which I would be quite happy with, but initial attempts have failed as it doesn't find any parameters to plot :/ Morten Den 6. maj 2015 kl. 17:21 skrev Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com: Where does the alembic time control live? On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 11:20:05 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: I have a heavy model with refmodel sub parts - onto this I import alembic animation data attaching it to existing nodes. This works fine so far. Saving the scene and loading it again I find that the animation is gone. I am guessing the alembic file is evaluated before the refmodels are loaded, thus throwing it off. Can this be the case, and how can I force loading refmodels before the alembic file? Morten
Alembic trouble again
I have a heavy model with refmodel sub parts - onto this I import alembic animation data attaching it to existing nodes. This works fine so far. Saving the scene and loading it again I find that the animation is gone. I am guessing the alembic file is evaluated before the refmodels are loaded, thus throwing it off. Can this be the case, and how can I force loading refmodels before the alembic file? Morten
Re: Alembic trouble again
Have the operators gone or just their links to the time control? If they still exist... you could simplify it and not rely on a time control Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk* On 6 May 2015 at 16:32, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: In the scene root - I was actually thinking of trying to put it in the model and see how that works. A different idea is to plot the animation to the mixer, which I would be quite happy with, but initial attempts have failed as it doesn't find any parameters to plot :/ Morten Den 6. maj 2015 kl. 17:21 skrev Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com: Where does the alembic time control live? On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 11:20:05 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: I have a heavy model with refmodel sub parts - onto this I import alembic animation data attaching it to existing nodes. This works fine so far. Saving the scene and loading it again I find that the animation is gone. I am guessing the alembic file is evaluated before the refmodels are loaded, thus throwing it off. Can this be the case, and how can I force loading refmodels before the alembic file? Morten
