I recently saw a video whereas the owner of the video took a fluid fluid water fall and imported into Maya and it rendered equally as if it was rendered in Houdini with Mantra (splashes, white water etc); but I have not the slightest clue on how this was done ?

There are some options to do it - meshed water can be transferred via alembic or fbx or via Houdini Engine. Particles can be imported using houdini engine (They will be shown as nparticles).

I found out only velocity can be imported into Maya Not sure about transfer maps; my take idea is to take the attributes which are transferred and export those as UV maps and import into Maya.

Funny enough this is the subject area I am working on right now > flip fluid sims into Maya. Ive got a way to get all your attributes into Maya > but and a big but is how you use a maya colour set to drive the motion blur nothing I have seen so far looks pin perfect ! . Katanna on the other hand reads the Houdini.abc files perfectly and renders without all the hassle. Basically Maya's importer is rubbish.

Rob

Dont know , not tested that …. Most of the time now FX light + render there elements with Deep and then everything is put together in comp.

Rob

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