Hello Everyone,

I am playing with new H16 hair system which works great ( thanks for the master class), I am interested in developing a work-flow at which I can groom Hair/Fur in Houdini and export it to Maya for rendering.

I am thinking of developing an OTL to import/export the data, but in the meantime if anyone have any thoughts or ideas, I would love to hear and discuss.


Thanks.

OTL/HDA is very basic right now, and I figured few things after spending some time, I have a file node and an alembic node with a switch that are controlled with a toggle and promoted at top level.

1- Works fine inside houdini loading and switching with a toggle b/w bgeo and alembic.
2- Houdini Engine loading the HDA smoothly in Maya.
3- Not reading .bgeo for some reason and giving a warning “unable to read file ../( rest of my file path)”.
4- Alembic works fine but its showing each curve separately.
5- I am trying to pack it as a single object or I trying to visualize it as a bounding box (in progress).

I ll update the thread as soon as I made any further progress, trying to resolve why bgeos are not working at first place and how can I read all curves with a single node (may be changing default alembic type to HDF5 or ogawa would help..)

Also thinking same thing with curves exporting back to maya for.. interested to hear more

Interested in such a workflow. Did you get a result?