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Export Alembic

Export Alembic - Houdini Tutorial

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Export Alembic

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- [Voiceover] We've taken a look at how to export geometry using the file cache SOP as bgeo files out of Houdini, and now I'm going to show you how we can cache out geometry as an alembic file, which is, of course, now the industry standard for moving geometry information between applications. So now let's go into our model object here, and we have our simple setup with our two objects, and at the end of this merge, I'm going to type "alembic". And we're going to do an alembic ROP output, actually ROP alembic output. And so this is actually technically a ROP, a render operator that we are using in SOP context. It's a special one that is made just for doing this. Okay, so now let's pull this down here. I'm going to hit the "P" key and there's quite a number of features in the alembic ROP. And we're just going to go over some basic stuff right now just to be able to get this out and cached out properly. So, first off, what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the name of this, just…

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