Thanks for the tips. We seemed to overcome it by enveloping the extra bits, but that could be an issue if we get into eyeball animation. Sending you a direct link Ho.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Ben Beckett <[email protected]> wrote: > In the past I cached and then cached with Alembic > > > On 25 July 2014 12:11, Ben Beckett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You could prebake there positions >> >> >> On 25 July 2014 10:36, Ho Chung Nguyen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> You might have to also export the parent hierarchy of those extra items, >>> cause the animation is in their transforms. >>> Do you have a scene we can help look into? >>> >>> From: [email protected] [mailto: >>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Byron Nash >>> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 1:42 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Alembic workflow question/problem >>> >>> I'm testing out the Alembic cache workflow to get characters from Maya >>> to Softimage. The enveloped characters are coming in good but sometimes the >>> parented objects don't receive the animation. Extra items like hats, >>> glasses and eyeballs are having trouble because they aren't enveloped. It >>> seems like I'm just missing a checkbox or something when I send it out but >>> I can't figure it out. Right now we are using Maya 2014 and Softimage 2015. >>> Could go to Maya 2015 if needed. >>> >>> Thanks for any tips! >>> >>> Byron >>> >> >> >
