I'm working through the Foundations tutorials and am stuck trying to export the animation to the stage. The tutorial has us selecting the soccer ball geometry in the OBJ context, then extract it using a USD Export Node, and save it to disk.

When I save the file, I'm saving it as "soccerball_anim.usd" However, when I look at the file in the files system, it's getting saved as "soccerball_anim.usdnc"

When I try to retrieve the data on the STAGE context using a REFERENCE Node, the file is invisible because the Reference node is expecting a .usd - SO, I though I'd cheat and change the file name manually in the file system. No luck.

I get this error - "

Error

Unable to find layer file: C:/Users/me/Documents/Houdini Projects/intro_lesson/usd/soccerball_anim.usd

Message

Targeted missing explicit primitive: /soccerball_anim "

I'd appreciate any help you can provide.

Hello,

If you erase everything here in the show files matching(or put star *) it will show any file type. also please note sometimes I have to put the path in quotes if the path includes a space (for the reference lop). Like this:

"$HIP/hou test/test.usd"

edit: alternatively you could just type the path you need an avoid the file/path explorer UI altogether.

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. I'm getting this error from the reference node -


Error
Unable to find layer file: C:/Users/andre/Documents/Houdini
Message
Targeted missing explicit primitive: /Houdini

Monergist
When I save the file, I'm saving it as "soccerball_anim.usd" However, when I look at the file in the files system, it's getting saved as "soccerball_anim.usdnc"

Files saved with Apprentice (OBJ is the only exception I can think of) save as non-commercial, hence the NC at the end. Have you tried referencing the file as it's named, with the usdnc path?

evanrudefx
Hello,

If you erase everything here in the show files matching(or put star *) it will show any file type. also please note sometimes I have to put the path in quotes if the path includes a space (for the reference lop). Like this:

"$HIP/hou test/test.usd"

edit: alternatively you could just type the path you need an avoid the file/path explorer UI altogether.

Thanks