Alembic export

Blender (Export script developed by yoyoz; Integrated Plugin developed by JimStar)
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ChaosOver
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How to export alembics?
Nothing happens if i check the 'Export alembic' option. Octane starts rendering as usual.
I tried it with the current stable 6.5 and with the dev version 8.5. Doesn't make any difference.

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Saramary
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Have you pushed the Animation button or the Render button as usual? If you want to export an alembic file you need to choose the Animation.
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ChaosOver
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Yes of course.
Usually it should work with the Animation Button...

I starts processing the shaders for every frame and renders out frame by frame.

I did this last year and it worked just fine(can't remember the version).
But it's not working on 6.5 and 8.5 on Windows x64 for me.
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It works. Just don't forget to enable OctaneServer :)
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steven369
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same issue here. The alembic button has worked a couple of times after I've installed
Version 2.72. Then I've tested a more recent version(which didnt have the abc-exporter), switched back to 2.72 and the button
didn't work no more. I've tried a lot of different setups already, but up to now without success.
I hope I can fix this, because its the only way to transfer a camera to octane standalone... :geek:
r-username
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I use .abc export almost daily without issue.

One thing to try is to leave the path to a folder and not to a file.
...export/
not ... export/filename.abc
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steven369
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Today I reinstalled BlenderOctane 2.72 and Standalone and the .abc-file was successfully exported again... :mrgreen:
steven369
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Now, maybe I have some modifiers and materials in my blender scene, that are not supportet, but
otoys alembic exporter works no time, 90 percent of the time - At least on my pc. Also the Blender-exporter-script
is only reliable in exporting an OBJ-file.
Luckily, these guys have been writing a pretty good script to animate a camera in octane itself, which is much more reliable.
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 5&start=10
It should be possible to load camera-data via the most reliable blender .chan-exporter into this "ol ready cam"-script
to achieve some blenderToOctane-pipeline.
steven369
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Sometimes it helps to shutdown and restart the Octane Server
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