Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
Sorry, sent too soon! meant to add that while I can pick scene objects, I can't get them into the import list -- clicking add to import list clears the picker but doesn't add any entries to the list. On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Ho. I'm probably doing something wrong, but after installing the components, when I do file=alembic=import alembic... I don't get a PPG that looks like the one in the docs. Most of the PPG components are just missing. I noticed also that the english Dictionary file is 0KB and completely empty of any text. Is this correct? I did try substituting the japanese Dictionary file, and got the proper dialog and was able to navigate, but was still unable to get the importer to attach alembic data to a scene object. Any insights welcome! On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Nuno Conceicao nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ho Please keep in mind the wetransfer link will expire in a couple weeks, if you need me to resubmit it using other means please let me know. Cheers Nuno On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Ho Chung Nguyen hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Nuno Thanks for identifying this issue, we’ve logged it in our database. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nuno Conceicao Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 7:09 PM To: No name Subject: Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import Sorry Ho, but the mesh I'm importing shows no new ICE attributes, if I do the color map lookup I also don't get any color from the color at vertices either. If I import this .abc file in maya I immediately see one of the CAVs (bifrostVelocity) So either the Alembic importer in Softimage doesn't support these CAVs or I need to force ICE to read them somehow from the file (haven't managed to do that either) I'm supplying a link to the .abc file I'm using for this test if want to have a look (attachment wont work). http://we.tl/0eGt6wcODE Thanks On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Ho Chung Nguyen hochung.ngu...@autodesk.commailto:hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Nuno, Any property in the .abc file will be imported as ICE attribute. You’ll need to add node Color Map Lookup to the RenderTree to render vertex colors. Note that setting the Vertex Color Display Property on the material will not work if its RenderTree doesn’t have the Color Map Lookup node. Besides this property is only meant for the viewport rendering. [cid:image003.jpg@01CF9A96.1D2A7F50]mailto: [cid:image003.jpg@01CF9A96.1D2A7F50] From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nuno Conceicao Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 12:13 AM To: No name Subject: Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import This is good news, at least Autodesk is doing something good to help smooth things out in a future transition. If I may request little a feature for this plugin, I notice that Alembic is not importing Vertex Color maps even though they are present on the .abc file exported from Maya. Is this something that can be implemented in a future update? On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl mailto:hirazib...@live.nlmailto:hirazib...@live.nlmailto: hirazib...@live.nl wrote: Interesting. Would you please consider registering at the si-community, so all these goodies get announced there as well? Greetz Leendert AKA Hirazi Blue -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.comhttp://si-community.com http://si-community.com
Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
Thanks Ho Please keep in mind the wetransfer link will expire in a couple weeks, if you need me to resubmit it using other means please let me know. Cheers Nuno On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Ho Chung Nguyen hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Nuno Thanks for identifying this issue, we’ve logged it in our database. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nuno Conceicao Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 7:09 PM To: No name Subject: Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import Sorry Ho, but the mesh I'm importing shows no new ICE attributes, if I do the color map lookup I also don't get any color from the color at vertices either. If I import this .abc file in maya I immediately see one of the CAVs (bifrostVelocity) So either the Alembic importer in Softimage doesn't support these CAVs or I need to force ICE to read them somehow from the file (haven't managed to do that either) I'm supplying a link to the .abc file I'm using for this test if want to have a look (attachment wont work). http://we.tl/0eGt6wcODE Thanks On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Ho Chung Nguyen hochung.ngu...@autodesk.commailto:hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Nuno, Any property in the .abc file will be imported as ICE attribute. You’ll need to add node Color Map Lookup to the RenderTree to render vertex colors. Note that setting the Vertex Color Display Property on the material will not work if its RenderTree doesn’t have the Color Map Lookup node. Besides this property is only meant for the viewport rendering. [cid:image003.jpg@01CF9A96.1D2A7F50]mailto: [cid:image003.jpg@01CF9A96.1D2A7F50] From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nuno Conceicao Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 12:13 AM To: No name Subject: Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import This is good news, at least Autodesk is doing something good to help smooth things out in a future transition. If I may request little a feature for this plugin, I notice that Alembic is not importing Vertex Color maps even though they are present on the .abc file exported from Maya. Is this something that can be implemented in a future update? On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl mailto:hirazib...@live.nlmailto:hirazib...@live.nlmailto: hirazib...@live.nl wrote: Interesting. Would you please consider registering at the si-community, so all these goodies get announced there as well? Greetz Leendert AKA Hirazi Blue -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.comhttp://si-community.com http://si-community.com
RE: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
Hi Nuno Thanks for identifying this issue, we’ve logged it in our database. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nuno Conceicao Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 7:09 PM To: No name Subject: Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import Sorry Ho, but the mesh I'm importing shows no new ICE attributes, if I do the color map lookup I also don't get any color from the color at vertices either. If I import this .abc file in maya I immediately see one of the CAVs (bifrostVelocity) So either the Alembic importer in Softimage doesn't support these CAVs or I need to force ICE to read them somehow from the file (haven't managed to do that either) I'm supplying a link to the .abc file I'm using for this test if want to have a look (attachment wont work). http://we.tl/0eGt6wcODE Thanks On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Ho Chung Nguyen hochung.ngu...@autodesk.commailto:hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Nuno, Any property in the .abc file will be imported as ICE attribute. You’ll need to add node Color Map Lookup to the RenderTree to render vertex colors. Note that setting the Vertex Color Display Property on the material will not work if its RenderTree doesn’t have the Color Map Lookup node. Besides this property is only meant for the viewport rendering. [cid:image003.jpg@01CF9A96.1D2A7F50]mailto:[cid:image003.jpg@01CF9A96.1D2A7F50] From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nuno Conceicao Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 12:13 AM To: No name Subject: Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import This is good news, at least Autodesk is doing something good to help smooth things out in a future transition. If I may request little a feature for this plugin, I notice that Alembic is not importing Vertex Color maps even though they are present on the .abc file exported from Maya. Is this something that can be implemented in a future update? On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nlmailto:hirazib...@live.nlmailto:hirazib...@live.nlmailto:hirazib...@live.nl wrote: Interesting. Would you please consider registering at the si-community, so all these goodies get announced there as well? Greetz Leendert AKA Hirazi Blue -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.comhttp://si-community.comhttp://si-community.com attachment: winmail.dat
Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
Wont be on the next SP or in no SP at all? On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Ho Chung Nguyen hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com wrote: This is for Softimage 2015 It won’t be in the SP release, but Hans has made the binary available on sourceforge From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Morten Bartholdy Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 10:06 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import Thanks for sharing Hans. I take it this is Softimage 2014 and 15 only!? Morten Den 4. juli 2014 kl. 04:24 skrev Hans Adrian (Intern) hans.adr...@autodesk.commailto:hans.adr...@autodesk.com: Hi all, Here is a link to Softimage Alembic Plug-In with added selective import feature: https://sourceforge.net/projects/softimage-alembic-plugin/ You can choose to import the whole Alembic file or to import only certain objects from the file. You can also choose to target an Alembic object to be imported to an existing object in the scene. There is no change in export mechanism.
RE: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
Hi Nuno, Feature enhancements to the Soft Alembic plugin will not be appearing in any SP. Thanks, Hsiao Ming From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nuno Conceicao Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 5:07 PM To: No name Subject: Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import Wont be on the next SP or in no SP at all? On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Ho Chung Nguyen hochung.ngu...@autodesk.commailto:hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com wrote: This is for Softimage 2015 It won’t be in the SP release, but Hans has made the binary available on sourceforge From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Morten Bartholdy Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 10:06 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import Thanks for sharing Hans. I take it this is Softimage 2014 and 15 only!? Morten Den 4. juli 2014 kl. 04:24 skrev Hans Adrian (Intern) hans.adr...@autodesk.commailto:hans.adr...@autodesk.commailto:hans.adr...@autodesk.commailto:hans.adr...@autodesk.com: Hi all, Here is a link to Softimage Alembic Plug-In with added selective import feature: https://sourceforge.net/projects/softimage-alembic-plugin/ You can choose to import the whole Alembic file or to import only certain objects from the file. You can also choose to target an Alembic object to be imported to an existing object in the scene. There is no change in export mechanism. attachment: winmail.dat
Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
Sorry Ho, but the mesh I'm importing shows no new ICE attributes, if I do the color map lookup I also don't get any color from the color at vertices either. If I import this .abc file in maya I immediately see one of the CAVs (bifrostVelocity) So either the Alembic importer in Softimage doesn't support these CAVs or I need to force ICE to read them somehow from the file (haven't managed to do that either) I'm supplying a link to the .abc file I'm using for this test if want to have a look (attachment wont work). http://we.tl/0eGt6wcODE Thanks On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Ho Chung Nguyen hochung.ngu...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Nuno, Any property in the .abc file will be imported as ICE attribute. You’ll need to add node Color Map Lookup to the RenderTree to render vertex colors. Note that setting the Vertex Color Display Property on the material will not work if its RenderTree doesn’t have the Color Map Lookup node. Besides this property is only meant for the viewport rendering. [cid:image003.jpg@01CF9A96.1D2A7F50] From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nuno Conceicao Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 12:13 AM To: No name Subject: Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import This is good news, at least Autodesk is doing something good to help smooth things out in a future transition. If I may request little a feature for this plugin, I notice that Alembic is not importing Vertex Color maps even though they are present on the .abc file exported from Maya. Is this something that can be implemented in a future update? On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl mailto:hirazib...@live.nl wrote: Interesting. Would you please consider registering at the si-community, so all these goodies get announced there as well? Greetz Leendert AKA Hirazi Blue -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.comhttp://si-community.com
Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
Thanks for sharing Hans. I take it this is Softimage 2014 and 15 only!? Morten Den 4. juli 2014 kl. 04:24 skrev Hans Adrian (Intern) hans.adr...@autodesk.com: Hi all, Here is a link to Softimage Alembic Plug-In with added selective import feature: https://sourceforge.net/projects/softimage-alembic-plugin/ You can choose to import the whole Alembic file or to import only certain objects from the file. You can also choose to target an Alembic object to be imported to an existing object in the scene. There is no change in export mechanism.
Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
It seems to be a plugin limitation, since I exported an alembic mesh from Bifrost/maya with vorticity and velocity CAVs, if i import it back, the data is still there. The same doesn't apply when i import the same mesh in Softimage. :( On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: So this is an in-out Alembic plugin for all SI versions? This is good news, at least Autodesk is doing something good to help smooth things out in a future transition. Indeed! *and* in future multi-plaform environments! Nuno you mentionned CAV's, but would that be a plugin limitation? or an Alembic limitation? (CAV's don't seem to be listed here http://code.google.com/p/alembic/wiki/Alembic_Geometric_Types .. or below) Or can Alembic support custom properties? Geometric types proposed in Alembic 1.0: Transform The AbcGeom Transform class has these attributes: - ops - One or more operations of translation, scale, rotation, or 4x4 Rotation is angle in degrees and axis of rotation. Operations can optionally indicate a hint (e.g. for Maya to record hinting for pivot behavior). - inherits - Does this transform concatenate or ignore the transforms of its parents - childBounds - (optional) The bounding volume, including all subobjects Alembic uses a right handed coordinate system. Points The AbcGeom Points class has these attributes: - P - the positions of each point - ids - for each P a 64bit unsigned integer that can be used to identify a Point - selfBounds - The bounding volume for just this object - childBounds - The bounding volume, including all subobjects - velocities - (optional) per point value is in units/second Curves The AbcGeom Curves class has these attributes: - type - linear or cubic (for all curves in object) - wrap - periodic or non-periodic (for all curves in object) - P - vertices - nVertices - for each curve the number of vertics in the curve - width (optional) - can be constant or varying, expressed as a diameter - N - (optional) Normals - uv - (optional) u-v coordinates - velocities - (optional) per point value is in units/second - selfBounds - The bounding volume for just this object - childBounds - (optional) The bounding volume, including all subobjects PolyMesh The Abc PolyMesh class has these attributes: - faceCounts - for each face the count of vertices that make up the face - faceIndices - for each vertex of each face the slot in P for the vertex - P - vertices - N - (optional) Normals - uv - (optional) u-v coordinates - selfBounds - The bounding volume for just this object - childBounds - (optional) The bounding volume, including all subobjects - facesets - (optional) named sets of faces from this mesh - velocities - (optional) per point value is in units/second SubD The Abc SubD class has these attributes: - faceCounts - for each face, the count of vertices that make up the face - faceIndices - for each vertex the slot in P for the vertex's coordinates - P - vertex coordinates - creases - (optional) creased edges - corners - (optional) vertexes that are corners - holes - (optional) regions to remove from the surface - uv - (optional) u-v coordinates - selfBounds - The bounding volume for just this object - childBounds - (optional) The bounding volume, including all subobjects - facesets - (optional) named sets of faces from this subd - velocities - (optional) value is in units/second FaceSet The Abc FaceSet class can be created as part of a SubD or PolyMesh and has these attributes: - faceNumbers - the faces from the SubD or PolyMesh that are in this faceset NuPatch The Abc NuPatch class has these attributes: - nucvs - the number of CVs in the u direction - nvcvs - the number of CVs in the v direction - uorder - the order of the patch in the u direction - vorder - the order of the patch in the v direction - uknot - floating point array containing the number of knots in the u direction - vknot - floating point array containing the number of knots in the v direction - Parameter lists (N, P, uv, arbparams) - selfBounds - The bounding volume for just this object - childBounds - (optional) The bounding volume, including all subobjects - velocities - (optional) per point value is in units/second Additionally, the NURBS objects will contain TrimCurves which may contain zero or more trim curves. The path is composed of segments in the u direction and then the v direction. Camera The Abc Camera class has these attributes: - focalLength (mm) - horizontalAperture/verticalAperture dimensions (cm) - horizontalFilmOffset/verticalFilmOffset (cm) - lenseSqueezeRatio: to handle anamorphic lenses, among other things. (width / height) - 2D
Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
Interesting. Would you please consider registering at the si-community, so all these goodies get announced there as well? Greetz Leendert AKA Hirazi Blue -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com
Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
This is good news, at least Autodesk is doing something good to help smooth things out in a future transition. If I may request little a feature for this plugin, I notice that Alembic is not importing Vertex Color maps even though they are present on the .abc file exported from Maya. Is this something that can be implemented in a future update? On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl wrote: Interesting. Would you please consider registering at the si-community, so all these goodies get announced there as well? Greetz Leendert AKA Hirazi Blue -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com
Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
Hi all, Here is a link to Softimage Alembic Plug-In with added selective import feature: https://sourceforge.net/projects/softimage-alembic-plugin/ You can choose to import the whole Alembic file or to import only certain objects from the file. You can also choose to target an Alembic object to be imported to an existing object in the scene. There is no change in export mechanism. attachment: winmail.dat
Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
oh, what a pleasant surprise... thanks! s On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Hans Adrian (Intern) hans.adr...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi all, Here is a link to Softimage Alembic Plug-In with added selective import feature: https://sourceforge.net/projects/softimage-alembic-plugin/ You can choose to import the whole Alembic file or to import only certain objects from the file. You can also choose to target an Alembic object to be imported to an existing object in the scene. There is no change in export mechanism.
Re: Softimage Alembic Plug-In with Selective Import
hmm, i am surprised to see no source code and it being hosted on... soureforge.net On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: oh, what a pleasant surprise... thanks! s On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Hans Adrian (Intern) hans.adr...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi all, Here is a link to Softimage Alembic Plug-In with added selective import feature: https://sourceforge.net/projects/softimage-alembic-plugin/ You can choose to import the whole Alembic file or to import only certain objects from the file. You can also choose to target an Alembic object to be imported to an existing object in the scene. There is no change in export mechanism.
