HI Sven,

The original Alembic file came from Maya 2017, exported using the Autodesk Alembic. My animator imported it into 2015 Soft using the Autodesk Alembic and put it into his Soft scene. He is able to reopen the scene without problems. He sends the Soft scene file and the Alembic file, and I am placing it in the same place in the project the animator has it on his computer. When I open the Soft scene file, it doesn't know the path to the Alembic file and crashes Soft. Is there a way of saving the Soft scene so it remembers the relative path to the Alembic file? It doesn’t show in the External File manager, which is where we’d expect to fix it if it was the link to a texture image or something.

Anyone know if Crate can be use in Maya 2017?

Thanks,
Leoung


On 7/27/2017 10:11 AM, Sven Constable wrote:

if it only crashes on other workstations it is probably not that XSI can't remember the path, because then it would crash on the same workstation on re-opening as well.

I suspect a mistake in the file path. The abc file might be accessible from the animators workstation but not from yours. Or maybe the animator used the crate plugin for the abc import and it's not installed on your workstation? Sorry if this sounds obvious.

Sven

*From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Leoung O'Young
*Sent:* Thursday, July 27, 2017 2:08 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: Alembic file from Maya to Softimage 2015

Hi Walter,

Thanks for your reply.
It crashes right after loading, it kicks me right out of Soft.
I don't think it isn't a security problem because I can load the scene if my animator remove the link to the Alembic file. For it to work I had to put the Alembic file in the root directory and re-link it. That is a pain. Haven't test it with Royal Render if I re-link it.
Copy All doesn't do the job.

Thanks,
Leoung

On 7/27/2017 3:52 AM, wavo wrote:

    hello Leoung,

    when did it crash?! during the loading process or when softimage
    trys to build the scenery
    in the viewport?
    Did you try to merge the saved scene in a fresh new Scene,
    another option mute first the viewport/s and the merge, if this
    works check the Alembic-path.
    Maybe it can also be a security-problem with the files, start
    softimage on the other computer as an administrator and then try
    to load the scene .
    And last i dont no if softimage saves the alembics when Externals
    Files is set to Copy All!

     good luck

    Walter

    Am 7/26/2017 um 5:25 PM schrieb Leoung O'Young:

        Sorry, I am probably not putting this correctly.
        We can import the ABC file in but when we saved the scene and
        open it up on another workstation it crashes.
        It looks like it doesn't remember the path to the ABC file. Is
        there a way of saving the scene so it is in the project file,
        like how it works with external files?

        Thanks,
        Leoung

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