[Bf-committers] Alembic support in Blender

[Lukas Tönne]

No, it's just an internal caching feature atm. We are aiming to have some
basic import/export from other software eventually and make the format more
compatible. You can come to the #blendercoders irc channel if you have
questions, my nick is lukas_t.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Thomas Volkmann <lists at thomasvolkmann.com>
wrote:

> So I have the latest Gooseberry build up and running. It seems it is not
> designed to load 3dParty Alembic files atm, or am I mistaken?
> Is there a official place for information/questions/feedback?
>
> thx,
> Thomas
>
>
> > Thomas Volkmann <lists at thomasvolkmann.com> hat am 9. März 2015 um 14:14
> > geschrieben:
> >
> >
> > Thanks Jeffrey, I was now able to build alembic... now to the Blender
> part....
> >
> > > Jeffrey <italic.rendezvous at gmail.com> hat am 8. März 2015 um 21:48
> > > geschrieben:
> > >
> > >
> > > Sure thing. The packages I had to install I found through failed
> > > compiling attempts, so your required packages might vary.
> > >
> > >
> > > Install glew-devel, libXmu-devel
> > >
> > > Skip bootstrap.py and go straight into cmake-gui
> > >
> > > Point ILM libs to /opt/lib/openexr/lib/...
> > >
> > > Enable HDF5 and point HDF5_DIR to /usr/bin
> > >
> > > Disable USE_PYALEMBIC or it will give you errors about missing pyilm
> > > (which I cannot build). If disabled, you do not need to specify the
> > > pyilm libs to build.
> > >
> > > In the options, the only options I have selected are USE_HDF5,
> > > USE_LIB64, USE_STATIC_BOOST, USE_STATIC_HDF5 (a total of 4 options).
> You
> > > must use HDF5 or Blender's cmake configure will throw an error.
> > >
> > > make
> > >
> > > make install
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 03/08/2015 04:21 AM, Thomas Volkmann wrote:
> > > > Hey Jeffrey,
> > > >
> > > > can you give a short overview how you managed to build Alembic on
> Fedora?
> > > > That would be awesome!
> > > >
> > > > Thx,
> > > > Thomas
> > > >
> > > > On 03/08/2015 07:06 AM, Jeffrey wrote:
> > > >> I got Alembic building thanks to Martijn's fork on github and got
> > > >> blender building with support. I've tested that it works within
> blender
> > > >> and reads from stored caches. Where is the best place we can ask
> > > >> questions or give feedback? Here or on the patch tracker?
> > > >>
> > > >> On 03/05/2015 04:15 AM, Sergey Sharybin wrote:
> > > >>> Just quick update,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Linux build environment should be now ready for alembic.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Jeffrey<
> italic.rendezvous at gmail.com>
> > > >>> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> Neither can I. For what it's worth, I have tried building from
> their
> > > >>>> sources, which gives me a linking error, as well as with
> > > >>>> install_deps.sh, which tells me "getopt: unrecognized option
> > > >>>> --with-alembic" and --with-all does not download or build it.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Also Fedora 20 x64
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> On 03/03/2015 05:34 AM, Thomas Volkmann wrote:
> > > >>>>> I guess I have to wait for the buildbot. I didn't manage to
> compile
> > > >>>> Alembic on
> > > >>>>> my system (Fedora20).
> > > >>>>> Is there an estimated time when you want to set it up?
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> thx,
> > > >>>>> Thomas
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>>
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jeffrey "Italic_" Hoover
> > >
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