Greetings all,

Once again one of my favorite issues raised it's ugly head at the facility I'm at, “Can we import/export files from Maya to Houdini?” … oy! And of course, this was followed by the supe's question “Can you just save your Houdini file as a Maya file so I can work on it too?” … :-0) Gack!

So before I launch into writing a few SOPs to import & export Maya PDC files and Point Oven MDD files into Houdini, I'd thought I'd check again with the community and ask once more in case there's one out there that I don't know about.

BTW: this will be a proper HDK SOP written in C/C++ for maximum performance.

Anyone seen these little puppies out there already?

Thanks!


Mark

hi!

Eetu over the odforce forums, started to write one, check it out:

http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=5895&hl=MDD [forums.odforce.net]

Dude, FBX is the way forward, then you don't have to write anything Of course, you're then beholden to Autodesk's whims… but a decent short-term solution.

Cheers,

peter B

“beholden to Autodesk's whims”

which is why it's important to keep up on collada as well…

pbowmar
Dude, FBX is the way forward, then you don't have to write anything Of course, you're then beholden to Autodesk's whims… but a decent short-term solution.

Cheers,

peter B

Hi Peter,

Sorry for the delay, been a bit distracted lately …

Ya know, I've been following FBX since Filmbox was, well, Filmbox, and I've lost track of where the Collada spec has wandered off to. So in the mean time:
http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=6516 [forums.odforce.net]

Got Vancouver on my mind … :-)

Cheers man!


Mark

arctor
“beholden to Autodesk's whims”

which is why it's important to keep up on collada as well…

Feeling more like M$ every day … Yahoo!


8)


Mark