I'm trying to export a scene I built in Houdini with procedural expression driven animations (some gears) with the goal of importing the scene into Maya to light it, but when I create an Alembic ROP and try to test render it errors saying “Alembic export is only supported in Houdini and Houdini FX versions”

That's kind of ridiculous if you ask me… any way around this? I have a lifetime license of Houdini FX HD Non-Commercial.

Thanks!

Apprentice HD does not export Alembic.

Edit: The way around purchase a full license

Argh that is super frustrating…. sigh. I suppose I'll have to find someone with a full license I am not even sure we have full licenses at school (SCAD)

At school there should be an Education license somewhere, which is different from Apprentice HD. IIRC I think that should let you export alembics.

EDIT: Just a guess, I don't know anything about SCAD's Houdini licenses.

Nicole Rager2
Argh that is super frustrating…. sigh. I suppose I'll have to find someone with a full license I am not even sure we have full licenses at school (SCAD)

Or just light and render in Houdini, which I might add out of the box is superior to Maya …..



Rob

Right, or follow Rob's advice. Houdini is much better for lighting and lookdev.

It should be available in any Education license - they're exactly the same as Houdini FX commercial, except they save in hipnc format.

I too wish Alembic IO were available in Apprentice HD; it's such an efficient file format.

If you can't use Houdini License right now ,Temporary you can export your animation in Obj Sequence with “ROP Output Driver” and import it in the Maya with a simple Script :idea:

I don,t know Houdin Engine works good in the apprentice license or no , but if it,s work , so you can load yor objects in the Maya directly with bgeo format !

I made a really usefull asset for loading sequence bgeo files ( and too many others formats like obj , pc ) in the Maya !

You can download this DA from this Topic :

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=30761&highlight=bgeo+reader [sidefx.com]

I hope it can Help you my friend