Until we switched to Soft 2014, models brought in from Speedtree were
very flaky. With 2014 things have been super stable. However, with
Speedtree 6, there was a bug that prevented pointcache files to be
written correctly once they got to be a certain size. This basically
meant that you could not export a very lengthy bit of animation with
your tree. With ST 7, they've added Alembic export, and in our early
tests here, we're able to bring in trees with animation via Alembic
without any problem (at least a full minute or so of animation, but I
don't see why we couldn't go higher).
If you're using ST6 and PC2 or MDD for exporting your animation, what
you could do is import the FBX into another app, or even Soft 2014,
export it as an OBJ, load that into 2013, and apply the animation...
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On 1/10/2014 8:46 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote:
We have a tree generated in Speedtree with some wind animation.
Softimage vanishes when I try importing the fbx file from Speedtree -
does anyone here know the do's and don'ts of Speedtree/Softimage
workflow?
On Softimage 2013SP1 Win7 here.
Thanks!
Morten
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