Hi Christobal, Arnold in XSI, and it is exactly a licensing issue, plus we would like to be able to do this for future purposes too - XSI will live a long time here. I get the part about just moving the particle data and using XSI instances. I am not sure we have the tech skills to make it work, but will look into it. Dop import - do you mean to extract points in Houdini or is that an ICE node?
Thanks for the tips so far - doesn't exactly look like a walk in the park though :) Morten > Den 10. oktober 2016 klokken 18:21 skrev Cristobal Infante <[email protected]>: > > > Hi Morten, > > What are you rendering with? > > Sorry I don't know exactly how to transfer the attributes but it should be > possible with alembic? > I've never went back to xsi to be honest ;). > > In terms of workflow, ideally you will export only center points from the > legos into xsi. You can use a dop import, and choose only to grab center > points to retrieve them. > Each point would have lego type, lego color attributes and then you would > instance in xsi your lego pieces. If you try to export the geo, you will > probably clog the pipeline and go crazy. > > I agree with Jordi, life is so much easier when fx/rendering are done in > houdini, however is good to be adaptable. > Even in big studios lighters have to use Maya/others because of licensing > issues (not enough houdini licenses) or simply the team . > > Best, > Cris > > > > > > On 10 October 2016 at 16:48, Morten Bartholdy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We would like to render explosions made in Houdini in XSI. The catch is it > > is Lego explosions, ie. the volumetric is represented by Lego bricks in > > colors derived from the heat data from the Houdini sim. It all works and > > renders fine in Houdini, but for pipeline issues we would like to move the > > geometry to XSI and render there. Problem is we have color attributes in > > Houdini which we need to transfer too. > > > > We are thinking of using alembic as cache format, but we don't know how > > the color attributes should be written in Houdini nor how to read that in > > XSI. > > > > Have any of you Houdini peeps done something similar or know which route > > to take? > > > > Thanks! > > > > best > > Morten > > ------ > > Softimage Mailing List. > > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
