antc
What was missing exactly? If alembic is an alternative it's presumably something geometry related?
Could you ever import an USD File with correctly applied geo, material and animation?
I think USD has to mature.
Or what s your experience?
antc
What was missing exactly? If alembic is an alternative it's presumably something geometry related?
eikonoklastes
This is going a bit off-topic, but I strongly disagree with the comments made about Solaris being beneficial only to larger productions.
I am pretty much a solo guy myself and have been using Solaris for my work for over a year now, and I will never want to use the traditional workflow again. Solaris brings many, many things to the table that are absolutely fantastic for shot setup, that are straight up clunky in the traditional workflow.
Something as simple as varying a light parameter for 2 shots will need separate Takes, keyframes or worse - separate lights - all clunky and/or unintuitive ways to accomplish it. Then, when things invariably get more granular, they get significantly messier the old way, whereas Solaris is always visually clean and intuitive at a glance. That's just one example. Listing them all here would bloat this message to beyond the scope of this thread.
Yes, there is a fair bit of a technical learning curve to it, but for me at least, the pros far outweigh the cons, and overcoming that curve was entirely worth it.
sniegockiszymontomtmI mean cache lop. When you are using something time dependent froms sops you must put cache node to author time samples, so you can import objects with animated transforms and everything works. If you see this clock indicating time dependency in solaris graph its not a proper workflow.
And do you mean caching considering simulations?tomtmYouHmm I dont really see an option to import null as its not object, but it would be strange if its not possible to import only transforms cuz its possible to create them in solaris, thats question to someone else how to import those transforms from null. Not elegant workaround would be to parent this null to object and import this object
Yes I saw the look at. But I mean, if you have a camera rig with some nulls in obj-context.
sniegockiszymon
You can use "followpath" and "lookat" nodes in solaris. You can select prim there, and those prims can be objects easily imorted from obj context
PS. Remember about caching, you dont want time dependency in your graph