Ok, embarrassment time, turns out I was a little behind in my Houdini 12 updates... Works fine most of the time now, occasionally a restart of Houdini is needed to bring in a new cache.
Thanks for all the advice everyone N From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gene Crucean Sent: Friday, 23 November 2012 5:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ICE particles to Houdini Hmm... that's how I usually do it. I'll take a look after the holiday's. On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Nick Angus <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Gene, I get an object in the obj viewer, but no particles, I am simply using the 'import alembic scene' in the file menu, maybe it is not that simple? Cheers, Nick From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Gene Crucean Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2012 5:00 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: ICE particles to Houdini What didn't work with Alembic? Seems to work on my end. On Wednesday, November 21, 2012, Nick Angus wrote: Does anyone have a good way to do this?, I have been trying Alembic, but failing, I am not a Houdini user as such but I am trying to work out at least getting a basic particle sim over. Nothing fancy, just points. Cheers, Nick -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** Freelance for hire ** www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com> ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com/> for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~ -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** Freelance for hire ** www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com> ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com/> for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~

