I am trying to import Houdini generated fluid meshes into Lightwave…

The best method I can tell is the Realflow plugins (LW does not accept the generated alembic files)

What I have tried so far, is creating a RF Mesh Exporter ROP….and pointing to the particle fluid surface SOP node. Inside the particle fluid surface node only the convert to setting of surface polygons seems to somewhat work. Compressed fluid Surfaces messes up triangulation (points are in the right place but polygons are a mess) and Surface VDB exports nothing…
Also I have had better success with transfer attributes unchecked.

Inside LW, I can kinda get it to work….usually have to import twice and it will eventually crash after 10 seconds of scrubbing citing ‘RF importer format error’

This RF mesh export is totally undocumented….I have found some plugin docs for an older version that did not even have the RF mesh exporter.


So my question is…does anyone know how this is supposed to work?
I have kinda got it figured with very limited Houdini knowledge…but I dont know if this was even designed for native Houdini fluids….or if this was meant to export RF meshes created with the RF mesher plugin SOP's in houdini.