In fully licensed H16.599 if I export an animated camera to an alembic and bring it back in again with an alembic archive, when I click build hirachy… houdini crashes. I will log a bug but I want to check if it is just me.

The camera comes from pftrack is parented to a scaled null and is exported with an alembic rop in /out.

I have also tried a camera with no parenting and it is constrained to that camera with chops. I have also used chrefit to bake all key frames. Still crashing. I must be doing something wrong because, how is this bug still out there, you can't export a valid camera. That's huge.

I will attach the the hip file and alembic when I get to work for you to inspect.

I haven't trusted houdini camera exports since H14.5

Fortunately it's just you. Never had a problem.

Houdini is so big, that people will hit into different situations that other people might never encounter. The best thing for crashes as usual is to get a producible case and log a bug with steps to reproduce and detailed info on your setup.

Just had the same problem. Houdini 16.0.600

The exported alembic camera was connected to a camera which had been linked via vtorigin()/vrotigin(). Also tried with CHOPs. Both crash on import.

Aeoll
Just had the same problem. Houdini 16.0.600

The exported alembic camera was connected to a camera which had been linked via vtorigin()/vrotigin(). Also tried with CHOPs. Both crash on import.

Cool. As Ed said, please log a bug for that. Thanks!
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