Bridging Maya and Houdini

sabareeshrg · Talkative Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 29

How to create pipeline between maya and houdini ie upto animation maya and in fx part houdini FBX is not working as we expected can any one help me

how to bridge these packages

helloworld · Socialite Joined: 05 Oct 2011 Posts: 53

alembic is the efficient way i think.

sabareeshrg · Talkative Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 29

Alembic won't export shaders and textures

we are still working on fbx part

edward · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:49 am GMT Post subject:

The easy way is to light/render in Houdini.

sabareeshrg · Talkative Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 29

i didnt get you edward light/render ???.
if we want animation from Maya , that's my prob

We are building pipeline like that Up to animation we use Maya and
total fx part in Houdini. company is planing for buy license also

edward · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:52 pm GMT Post subject:

If you light/render in Houdini, then you do you do your shaders/textures on the Houdini side. No need to export from Maya. So you go back to using FBX to get animation from Maya into Houdini.

patar · Socialite Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 65

or you can model, shade and render in maya (in passes ofcoz), this is due im sure in your pipeline most artist are comfortable using maya than houdini...
and the fx component rendered in houdini (also in passes), and comp it. if u need a collider or a source for your fx element transfer between both using alembic (it wont need texture or shader)...
best regards
Patar

miklem · Talkative Joined: 09 Apr 2012 Posts: 25

patar · Socialite Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 65

Sounds good, but what if model already textured?
I was importing geometry from maya to houdini without any problem, but when I started to render with mantra, I got a lot of errors about "mantra can`t load texture $full psd file texture here"
What i need to do in this case?
if you really want to render in houdini why not convert the texture to other format that houdini can read (ie: tga ,tiff,etc...)

miklem · Talkative Joined: 09 Apr 2012 Posts: 25

furball · Talkative Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 25

Convert the textures to .rat format if rendering in mantra. Renders faster as it consumes less memory.

nixdna · Lurker Joined: 29 Jun 2012 Posts: 3

Hi,

I'm using Houdini 12.0.634, and I would like to export my geos/animations in alembic format containing for the multiples objects informations. For the moment I have multiples objects animated and each object as a define group in Houdini. When I export I get a merged animated object in Maya with the alembic exporter
There is a partition attribute parameter but nothing appears in the folding menu (either group or attribute..)

Any clue?

Thanks in advance.

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nixdna · Lurker Joined: 29 Jun 2012 Posts: 3

Thanks for the tips.
The problem is I loose the information of where they come from and it is a bit tricky to re-link the material afterwards..
There must be solution to make this work!