[Bf-committers] Alembic integration

[Jeroen Hoolmans]

Thanks Thomas! 
I'll see if I can get in touch with them :-). 


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Jeroen Hoolmans
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On Monday, February 18, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Thomas Volkmann wrote:

> Hi Jeroen,
> 
> thumbs up!
> When you dive into it be sure to check this out:
> http://www.exocortex.com/alembic
> That is what lots (most?) of Softimage/Max/Maya is using for Alembic workflow.
> These are really nice guys, and they probably can provide you some information
> to get you started (Helge's mail is on that page). I can imagine that they have
> some interest, that a Blender Alembic is compatible with their suite. Could be a
> win/win situation.
> 
> cheers,
> Thomas
> 
> 
> > Jeroen Hoolmans <jhoolmans at gmail.com (mailto:jhoolmans at gmail.com)> hat am 18. Februar 2013 um 02:16
> > geschrieben:
> > 
> > 
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > I'm fairly new to the Blender codebase, but I am really interested in getting
> > Alembic into Blender as a personal project. More information at alembic.io (http://alembic.io)
> > So far I got Alembic compiled on my OSX system, haven't tried windows or
> > linux.
> > 
> > Some things that I noticed right away:
> > 
> > - OpenEXR's dependency ilmBase is in common with Alembic, however it has be
> > upgraded to 1.0.3 (not sure what version is currently included).
> > - It brings HDF5 as a dependency.
> > - Boost 1.51.0 breaks a test of Alembic (no big deal though), Alembic was
> > tested with 1.44 by the developers.
> > 
> > 
> > I'd like to talk about the integration in Blender. Erwin94 (sorry I don't know
> > your real name) suggested to start with extending the mesh cache modifier.
> > Note that Alembic is not a pure Geometry cache format, it can cache the entire
> > scene inside a single file, including lights, camera's, curves, nurbssurfaces
> > and even custom data.
> > 
> > So I'm looking for a more general solution for integrating.
> > 
> > --Jeroen
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