Dai Xiaonan

DaiXiaonan

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VFX Artist

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BeiJing, China
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Recent Forum Posts

Solaris USD UV Problem Dec. 20, 2025, 9:44 p.m.

It is not a Houdini issue. I believe it is a Maya issue.

I exported a usd file from Houdini to Maya and Blender. This is the result.

I guess it's because Maya cannot read usd file correctly, however even blender can.

Maya USD sucks.

Help with choosing a CPU Sept. 5, 2025, 9:06 a.m.

jsmack
3) dumpster dive for some ewaste-tier xeons
pros - price, stability, memory capacity
cons - slow, low performance per watt

I used to have a workstation with dual Xeon 8375C CPUs (QS version), 128G RAM. Very powerful, very cheap. Now they have newer ones, like Xeon 85xx.

Normals off on alembic export to Unreal Engine May 25, 2025, 6:52 a.m.

I encountered with this issue when I try to give my alembic a name/path attribute when packing them into a abc.