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No Alembic export

Open hybridherbst opened this issue 9 years ago • 6 comments

The description says "export Unity scene to USD or Alembic file", but there seems to be no way to actually export an Alembic file.

Or am I missing something?

hybridherbst avatar Jan 12 '17 10:01 hybridherbst

if output file name has .abc extension, it will be exported as Alembic. but USD's alembic support seems still very unstable. maybe need more time.

i-saint avatar Jan 15 '17 16:01 i-saint

Hi, when trying that Unity simply closes - no warning, no error message, nothing, it just quits. I attached the crash report, would be great if you can take a look. (this is running on Mac, by the way)

We found no way to convert the .usd files to .abc, which greatly reduces the usefulness of this package - is there one for Mac/PC?

crash-report.txt

hybridherbst avatar Jan 16 '17 11:01 hybridherbst

it seems a problem in Pixar's UsdAbc. I will try to fix but it will take time. but if you just want to convert .usd to .abc, you should find another solution. I guess Maya can do it.

i-saint avatar Jan 17 '17 03:01 i-saint

OK, thank you. Just think that with ABC support this package is much more useful than the less-used USD format.

hybridherbst avatar Jan 18 '17 10:01 hybridherbst

FYI: there is also Alembic for Unity plugin https://github.com/unity3d-jp/AlembicImporter (it also can export) and our DCC team is working on Alembic as built-in feature.

i-saint avatar Jan 18 '17 13:01 i-saint

Would I just need to add .ABC extension after importing alembicimporter?

zcream avatar Nov 11 '18 09:11 zcream