Thanks Moritz and Sean, it looks like either one of those will do what I need. 
I would rather not add an external dependency to this job, but hey, what's one 
more?

-t

On Aug 7, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Sean Brice <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thought as much :)
> 
> Would the PolySubdivide node in the Geometry Tools plugin set on Nukepedia 
> help you? (..if you're allowed to install plug-ins in your facility).
> 
> http://www.nukepedia.com/plugins/3d/geometry-tools
> 
> "PolySubdivide: Catmull-Clark subdivsion on object or faces"
>  
> Cheers, 
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
> Tim Bowman wrote:
>> Thanks Sean, but my problem is that the geo is in the wrong place. I really 
>> need to subdivide the mesh, not just smooth the normals.
>> 
>> -t
>> 
>> On Aug 7, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Sean Brice 
>> <[email protected]>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>   
>> 
>>> Hey Tim,
>>> 
>>> You can try using a Normals node after the ReadGeo node with the 'action' 
>>> knob set to 'build', and adjust the 'angle threshold' knob to fit your 
>>> needs.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Sean
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Tim Bowman wrote:
>>>     
>>> 
>>>> Hi all --
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a way to subdivide geo coming from an Alembic cache?
>>>> 
>>>> Say I have a low-res polygon mesh that's getting subdivided by my lighter 
>>>> friend who's rendering in Vray. I'm trying to apply a texture to his 
>>>> render using the same mesh in Nuke. It's working great, except for some 
>>>> mismatch along glancing-angle edges. 
>>>> Anyone have a solution that stays in Nuke? (Re-running the Alembic files 
>>>> with subdivided geo is an option, but not a good one for this situation.)
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> -t
>>>> 
>>>> 
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