Dear Forumers,

I have imported an abc file and want to apply materials to various elements. The groupings are based on locations though so it would be an EXTREMELY long and tedious process to apply certain materials to certain elements.

Is there a better, swifter way?

Everything is named well so some kind of script might be helpful, say, apply X material to all nodes names containing such and such?

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers,

Nick.

Also how does one animate the various groups and subgroups etc?

https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=31367&highlight=script+material+alembic [sidefx.com]

do you have an example file or abc?

are2d2:

i found out a solution in the end from the link above.

used pattern matching in the object pattern parameter of the alembic SOP to isolate various group depending on their names.