Hi Sebastian, as already mentioned Exocortex Crate does this reliable. See here: http://exocortex.com/blog/crate_custom_attribute_softimage
Just a side note, getting custom attributes from XSI into Houdini can be a pain too and I’ve had much better luck exporting those from 2015 with its onboard Alembic than with Crate. Andy On Sep 10, 2014, at 17:29, Sebastian Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: > I am exporting some points into an alembic file from houdini to xsi and > stumble on one issue. > > Transferring attributes works good for what you could call 'factory > attributes' like P or v (we have to rename that to something with more than > just one letter, cause it wont appear in xsi). > But I also compute angular velocity (w) and couple other 'arbitrary user > attributes', all vectors (3f). This suckers come in as single float value. > Not even as a array of 3 values per point. > > As the same alembic file works like expected as re-import in houdini, I am > pretty sure it is an eff up in xsi. > Just want to make sure I am not doing something stupid. > Anyone experience the same? > Its with the 2015 version of xsi. > > sebastian > > > ------------------------------ > http://www.sekow.com

