How to export particle information into a text file? We wrote an renderman dso to render more particles based on the text file which includes the particle information. We use this method with maya before, we want to try houdini, are there any houdini export script examples?

Or, could I do this with mantra?

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How to export particle information into a text file? We wrote an renderman dso to render more particles based on the text file which includes the particle information. We use this method with maya before, we want to try houdini, are there any houdini export script examples?

Or, could I do this with mantra?

I won't tell you whether or not you should render in Mantra or PRMan, but as to exporting particles information take a look on HOM example:

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini9.1/hom/cookbook/particle_cache/ [sidefx.com]

or simple use CHOPS to save needed attributes to channel file.

cheers,
sy.

hmm, thanks, very useful.