Test it by re-importing the particles back into Softimage to see if you can manipulate them. It's the program that created them so it should have the best chance at modifying it.
On 21 September 2012 07:06, Marten Blumen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The particles are baked into the Abc format; from the Alembic site: > > http://code.google.com/p/alembic/ > What is Alembic? <http://code.google.com/p/alembic/#What_is_Alembic?> > > At the highest, most simplistic level, Alembic is "merely" a hierarchical > sampled data storage format. It is intended to be used to store a baked > representation of scene data, in the same vein as GTO or OBJ. It was > designed to facilitate handoff of data between disciplines, vendors, and > applications. > > At a lower, less simplistic level, Alembic is designed to be very > efficient with its use of memory and disk space. Much effort has been > directed towards automatic and transparent mechanisms for data > de-duplication and reading/writing as little data as possible in order to > fully represent the data that has been given to it. > > Alembic is *not* a live scenegraph, an asset management system, a > renderer, or replacement for OpenGL. > Why was it made? > > - To create an open standard for scene data sharing > - To support a baked-data workflow > - enable easy hand-off between disciplines > - > > > On 21 September 2012 06:03, Sam Cuttriss <[email protected]> wrote: > >> well, they are recognised and displayed, at the correct location. >> so the application/format is not failing ( for position information >> anyway ) >> >> but they are not available to manipulate as particles by nuke particle >> nodes. >> >> im thinking its just a flag that isnt being updated. >> >> >> >> >> On 9/19/2012 8:39 PM, Marten Blumen wrote: >> >> Are particles compatible between different software? There's an >> open-source particle format called Partio. >> http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/partio.html >> >> On 20 September 2012 12:07, Sam Cuttriss <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> im reading in an alembic file (particles exported from softimage) with >>> load as particles option in AtomReadGeo >>> >>> they load in fine, i see them in my viewport. >>> but im unable to plug a particle expression node or any node that >>> expects particles. >>> >>> i assume the problem is just a flag that has not been set, >>> any pointers? >>> >>> thanks >>> _sam >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing [email protected], >> http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> > >
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