Alembic import to octane1.5 Animated geometry support

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Evgen
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Hello. I have alembic file with animated geometry inside.
It is not just object transform, it is really dynamic soft-bodies from houdini.
So i haven't see this objects after importing it to octane.
Does octane supports animated geometry from alembic?
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kavorka
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It does.
In octane 1.5 right click, go to geometry and choose "scene".
That will allow you to load an alembic file. You will need to make a render target and connect the camera and mesh data from the alembic file in order to render out the animation with the script.
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Evgen
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Thank you kavorka for answer.
Unfortunately my alembic node doesn't have outputs. Could you check it in your octane?
Maybe this alembic is not proper format?
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output.abc
Alembic with animated geometry
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kavorka
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I'll check later, cant while I'm at work.

There should be 2 nodes on the bottom of the alembic node. One is geometry, one is camera.
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Evgen
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Seems that I just do something wrong so its ok now) Thank you
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roeland
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The attached file contains subdivided geometry. Octane 1.5 can't load this.

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