Ah yeah great idea. Never thought of using it for that.
Will give it a go aye.
Thanks as always man

Best

Peter

I do not think this is possible.. but just in case...

If you animate in a third party app (blender, maya, 3dsmax etc) an invisible node, or polygon with zero scale etc. Simply moving from left to right as an example. and export an ABC of it over a period of frames.

Can you use any kind of ...

thanks mate... now to solve mac osx 2026.2 network renering :>)))))

love the challenge :>)))

Aafter a reset on the machine I am up and running with 2026.2 network... and can now run the full 2026.2 standalone.... so clearly there was a gremlin in my overall system I just could not find.
All good

Thanks mate

I will try that Beppe

What I am in the middle of is rebuilding that system. (Backing up first :>)

It is the one I was having trouble with earlier, that would not run 2026.2 (only the 2025 and Alpha 2026.1)

I started form scratch on. a diff computer and have had no issues running 2026.2 ...

When I run the run_installed_daemon.bat network slave (after installing the _instal_daemon)
I get :

"detected that render node is hanging during startup -> render stopped"
(The slave is a laptop running an occulink GPU that renders fine on the standalone and has given me no errors, and the gpu ...

Many thanks
I'll post under general and see if I can get a fix aye.

Appreciate you replying

Peter

excuse me for posting here

I have tried installing the add on in 5.01 and 5.1

I keep getting add on install errors

any ideas

thanks

here is one from 5.1

Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 5.1\5.1\scripts\addons_core\bl_pkg\bl_extension ...

Perfect... that did it mate!!
So Daz essentially writes out an incomplete ABC

Cinema and Octane together must be "completing it in in some fashion.

I'll reach out to Daz

MANY Thanks Beppe

Peter

I realize my more simple question might be..

When you use geometry exporter on an abc file and write out an abc file... does it include the animation?
or
If you unpack it... does it rewrite anything or just "unpack" originals.

Secretly hoping Octane's rewriting of the abc fixes the issue of not ...