Hi Jonathan,
I have downloaded it but haven't tested it out. We have to rely on
another animator who is supplying us with the Maya 2017 Crate file.
Does Crate do much more than the Autodesk Alembic importer/exporter?
Thanks,
Leoung
On 7/27/2017 3:17 PM, Jonathan Moore wrote:
Leoung, did you get a chance to check out the Crate for Maya 2017 I
posted?
On 27 July 2017 at 20:15, Leoung O'Young <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Sven,
Thanks so much for such a detail explanation. We will test it out.
Leoung
On 7/27/2017 2:48 PM, Sven Constable wrote:
XSI considers alembic files not as regular external files. So
they are not in the External Files manager. The only exception is
when there are inside a ref model, then the ref model is external
an everything in it.
Regarding relative pathes:
Yes , you can do that using the token [Project Path] in the
alembic path. If you left it blank its actually the same. XSI
will search for the file in the projects root directory per
default. So if the animator puts it in the projects root folder,
the path can be left empty and XSI should find it too. But
probably a subfolder is more suitable. Eg. "[Project
Path]\Alembic-Files\findme.abc" should work, even without the token.
Sven
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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
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Of *Leoung O'Young
*Sent:* Thursday, July 27, 2017 2:08 PM
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[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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