Alembic accessing custom Data channels
With geometry nodes we get great power. But we are limited in the information we can load. We load simulated particles on external software in to blender using abc, using geometry nodesto instance over theses particles. The problem comes reading information coming on these alembics, we store multiple data channel information on each particle to be used later as size/color/whatever. But blender can not read any custom data channel limiting a lot what we can do with it.
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a definite must.
Yes please! Storm is a great piece of software and I'm really limited when using blender for render my storm animations. Thanks!
Hi, if you would like to give a try and give me some feedback, I am currently working on this (custom attribute import, better point cloud support). I opened a thread on blenderartists.org were I shared some builds: blenderartists.org/t/new-alembic-features-and-attribute-rendering/1334154
all of the links on the BA thread to download this are dead ( 404 ) is there another place to get this?
Also worth considering is building this as an import-export addon instead of a full branch. I would imagine it would be easier to develop vs a full branch.
The builds are archived and deleted after some time, and I haven't created new builds since then.
As for making an addon, I don't see how this would work, as it improves the current alembic importer (I am one of the original developers for this feature). An addon would require implementing a different Alembic importer in Python which is not really possible.
Je vous support. On a besoin de cela par rapport les simulations. Merci de l'envisager.
would be cool to have this! any updates?
Hi, I don't know if you receive notifications for other comments in the thread, but just in case, I have some builds available for try: blenderartists.org/t/new-alembic-features-and-attribute-rendering/1334154