export curve to realflow?

#1

has anyone tried exporting a curve from maya and import to realflow?

how? what format should export be?

i tried alembic and obj. doesn’t work.

#2

Your best bet is to snap a cube or sphere to each CV along your curve in Maya and export those objects as a Realflow SD file (Alembic might work…but I know SD does).
Then create your curve emitter and make a handle for each mesh you exported and set the parent of each handle on the curve to each of your meshes. You can then also use those meshes to move around the curve shape as well, which is very nice.
Hope that helps.
~Ben

#3

yes, thats what i do. snap polys at the vertices of curve. export import to RF. and connect to dSpline emitter. i just thought by now realflow devs would have made it easier.