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Hello, can you tell me please how to bake octane scatter from Cinema 4d, and transfer it to Maya? Is it even possible?

Hi,
a possible solution is to export to Standalone, save all the position matrix in a csv file, and import it back into Maya.
The original geometry can be shared via FBX.
ciao Beppe

Hi, how import csv file in maya and place object in the same position and save rotation, exist some script for this purpose?

Hi,
sorry not a Maya expert, but if I remember well, it should be possible to drag and drop the .csv files into the node graph editor directly.
ciao Beppe

akvahouse wrote:Hi, how import csv file in maya and place object in the same position and save rotation, exist some script for this purpose?

It's been a while since I did this, but I had success doing something similar by formatting a csv file as a simple .obj in a text editor. (The .obj file structure is very simple and you can find it well documented online.) That way each point becomes a vertex on a poly object when imported. The actual faces don't matter, so I just copy-pasted an appropriate block of text from another .obj of a sphere or something. It looks a mess, but you're not really using it for how it looks. I then used a particle system to place instanced geometry on each vertex.

Orientation may still be a problem though. I'm not sure if you'll get any kind of vector info with the csv. out of Stand Alone. I might have to give it a try, just to see.

Hi

You could convert scatter to alembic using the method linked below and then you could bring that alembic in Maya. Unfortunately, it's been 10 years or so since I switched from Maya to C4D so I've no idea if there is a way to preserve instances but hey it's Maya and in Maya EVERYTHING is possible with a bit of mel / python / c++

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Regards
Milan