I think this is a softimage thing. Not a alembic thing. Softimage is pretty slow with lots of objects. I bet if the cinema guy would export all objects as one it would perform very good in softimage. Cheers Am 18.03.2015 11:32 schrieb "Morten Bartholdy" <x...@colorshopvfx.dk>:
> I am stuck on Softimage 2013SP1 so I am using Crate for opening alembic > files. I am currently working with shots where we import alembic files > created in Cinema4D and they contain many thousands of objects that scale > and rotate. With Crate they are pretty slow to work with - scrubbing the > timeline is slow, and creating overrides in various passes is slow. > > > I can see our Maya artists can actually scrub the timeline in Maya > pretty inetractively with the same files, so I take it the built in version > from Autodesk is faster that Crate. > > > I am curious to know if someone here have tried the built in alembic > loader in a newer version of Softimage and had the opportunity to compare > it to the one in Maya? > > Best > > Morten > > >
