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Alembic geometry: Selecting geometry with the Scenegraph

Alembic geometry: Selecting geometry with the Scenegraph - Nuke Tutorial

From the course: Nuke New Features Consolidated

Alembic geometry: Selecting geometry with the Scenegraph

- [Instructor] You can also use the ReadGeo camera and access nodes to bring in specific individual alembic scene elements such as one piece of geometry, or maybe just a camera. Let's start by looking at the ReadGeo node. So we'll go up to the 3D tab, geometry, ReadGeo. We go to the file field, open up the browser, and select our alembic scene, which opens up the import dialogue box. Now we have in here everything for the entire alembic scene, points, meshes, axis and cameras, but we just want to bring in one element, let's say the sun. So the first thing we do is turn off root as being the parent, then we can select the sun and turn that on as a parent. Since we only have the one parent, it doesn't matter which of these options we choose. I'll just choose this one. We'll switch to the 3D viewer, and there is the sun. Just to make it easier to see, let's hook up a little checkerboard to it. And when I play the clip, we get the animated sun loaded in from the alembic scene file. Up…

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