the rib exporter puts the houdini object transform at the start as can be seen in the example below. Can this be removed? It overrides any pre-transforms I've given the archive. Maby using the concatenateTransform instead would solve it.

AttributeBegin # {
# Geometry object /obj/myGeo
Transform
Attribute “identifier” “string name” \
…

kahuna031
the rib exporter puts the houdini object transform at the start as can be seen in the example below. Can this be removed? It overrides any pre-transforms I've given the archive. Maby using the concatenateTransform instead would solve it.

AttributeBegin # {
# Geometry object /obj/myGeo
Transform
Attribute “identifier” “string name” \
…

Are you using the RIB Archive ROP? What version of Houdini? The RIB Archive ROP seems to output ConcatTransform for me. Maybe try a more recent build?

yeah I'm using the rib archive
I'm on build 10.0.554. I'll check with our tech guys then and see if I can get the fix….

thanks mate!