I really hope this is not a repeat, and I apologize in advance if it is!

I am trying to load a model with materials from maya into houdini for rendering via alembic. From maya 2013.5, I go to the pipeline cache menu and export the abc file with default settings

In houdini 13.0 I then load the abc via the alembic archive OBJ. I get the models, but no materials. This seems to be the case whether I use houdini geometry or alembic delayed load primitives

is transferring a model with materials from maya to houdini possible via alembic (I was on the impression it could work)? it seems to work with FBX so I am wondering if perhaps I am missing an obvious step?

thank you!

Previously materials don't travel with Alembic files, not sure were abc are at yet.

ah bummer… :?