Barosin
*Sent:* Tuesday, 29 January 2013 2:41 AM
*To:* xsi
*Subject:* Re: building asset tools
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We're currently using alembic from soft to soft here. Using reference
models with pre existing envelopes that attach on the fly to our rigs.
Alembic is basically used for point caching
*I would say, the most important is to make the right difference between
the asset and the file on disk.*
*The asset is just a concept, often just an entry in whatever storage unit
you choose with metadatas and bind to a file on dis*k.
I can only second that. The most common design mistake I see
As far as technicalities go, I'd go for FBX for storing hierarchies of
objects.
Hierarchies can be saved using Alembic too. It is a format to bake scenes
after all :).
FBX advantages are that you don't bake the meshes as they keeps their
envelope and use the DCC specific code to do the
Does anyone here on the list knows if you can envelope an alembic file?
regards
stefan
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Guillaume Laforge
guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote:
As far as technicalities go, I'd go for FBX for storing hierarchies of
objects.
Hierarchies can be saved using
You can't 'out the box', but you could store all the envelope weights and
static pauses using some Alembic properties.
The main problem would be that you would need to interpret those new
properties in every DCCs alembic plugin too...
So, in short the answer is no :).
Guillaume
On Mon, Jan 28,
I suppose you could probably attach custom float and string data to the
Alembic geometry description. But you'd then need to do some work to tell
the DCC to rebuild an envelope from that.
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.comwrote:
Does anyone here on the list
a static pause could be technically correct though ;)
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Guillaume Laforge
guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote:
static pauses
static poses...
(long time since I did my last character pose I guess)
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Guillaume Laforge
:)
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote:
a static pause could be technically correct though ;)
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Guillaume Laforge
guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote:
static pauses
static poses...
(long time since I did my last
asset tools
Does anyone here on the list knows if you can envelope an alembic file?
regards
stefan
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Guillaume Laforge
guillaume.laforge...@gmail.commailto:guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote:
As far as technicalities go, I'd go for FBX for storing hierarchies
We're currently using alembic from soft to soft here. Using reference
models with pre existing envelopes that attach on the fly to our rigs.
Alembic is basically used for point caching.
Alembic has also been used here for sharing data between Soft, Max, Maya
and Houdini quite nicely (cameras,
hey Stefan
I would say, the most important is to make the right difference between the
asset and the file on disk.
The asset is just a concept, often just an entry in whatever storage unit
you choose with metadatas and bind to a file on disk.
So to keep things simple, why not considering your
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