Reading in Alembic cached particles ?


#1

Greetings.

I am running maya 2013 sp2

I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to read&write alembic caches
for native maya particles.

When I use the pipeline cache and alembic cache out a particle system, it
definitely seems to be writing out a lot of data to the .abc file it creates.

But trying to import this alembic cache back in to maya through the Pipeline cache menu
seems to just create an empty transform node with no information attached.
Are the out-of-the box alembic cache tools in 2013 only limited to geometry and not particles?

Chris.


#2

Looks like Maya 2015 sp4 can’t read Alembic particles either!

I can export Maya 2015 particles to Softimage 2015 with alembic, and they show with no problems. But I cannot read them back in Maya!

Also if I export particles from Softimage 2015 with alembic, they can be read back from Softimage. But they can’t be read from Maya 2015.

I guess alembic import particles it’s not included in this release…

Marco