The animation caching pipeline I wrote at work looks at the construction history stack and if it's operator-free it plots that item's global kinematics, else pointcaches. This way we don't have to really think about it if it's an insane asset.
Actionclips are very light in my experience. On top of that, you can choose to work with referenced actions, and then you can just keep updating a particular filepath with the latest animation and when the scene is reloaded, it's there. On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Oscar Juarez <[email protected]>wrote: > Alembic can save transforms and point caches, you could try with Exocortex > Crate, that would help on the file size front. > You could also script saving plotted global transforms on geometries which > don't have and envelope or deformer and save them to a clip which you load > in your rendering scene, you would need to assume that if it has an > operator on the animation section of the stack then its being deformed, if > its clear then it's transforming. Just be sure you keep the centers in the > same place between your rigged version and your rendering version of the > asset. > > All of that is scriptable, with Crate I think you get that behavior out of > the box. > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Jean-Louis Billard < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes that’s what we did previously on a model that had just a few surfaces >> to cache (a mouse). >> Here however we have a robot with hundreds of elements, some rigid and >> some deformed, with a pretty huge geometry count. Things risk getting big >> pretty quickly, so I was hoping to avoid caching unless it was strictly >> necessary. >> >> Incidentally, what would be the best practice to cache rigid elements >> (i.e. transforms only, no geometry) to avoid having large amounts of data >> written out? >> >> >> Jean-Louis >> >> >> >> >> On 16 Nov 2013, at 02:57, Cesar Saez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Or you can just cache the rigs (en everything else) before send them to >> the farm... just saying :-) >> >> >> Jean-Louis Billard >> >> Digital Golem >> BE: +32 (0) 484 263 563 >> UK: +44 (0) 7973 660 119 >> [email protected] >> http://www.digitalgolem.com/ >> 53 Rue Gustave Huberti >> 1030 Brussels >> >> >> >> >
