Jack Shand

Hi guys I can't seem to get nodes such as polyreduce, remesh, or labs fast remesh to work on any imported animated geometry alembic files. I was trying to recreate an awesome workflow from Dylan Browne on importing 'High Quality Water in Unreal Engine 5 via Alembic Caches' [www.youtube.com] from timestamp 5min onwwards

He managed to optimize a 12gb alembic water sim loop down to a 600mb which he could import into Unreal Engine 5.

I have attempted this same workflow for a 200 frame garment simulation alembic exported from Marvelous Designer into Houdini 19.5 and found none of the nodes he had used appear to have any affect on the reduction in the viewport or any export from the ROP Alembic Output result.

I am fairly new in Houdini and not very familiar with advanced alembic workflows. attached a quick video of the scene set up and settings.

Any insight would be very appreciated, thanks guys

Thanks for your response sepu, I was testing out CINEMA4D and Keyshot in this case. two DCC's which usually have decent alembic support. How would I go about exporting for those two packages?

cheers

Hey guys I am a relatively new Houdini user and just wrapped my head around setting up basic sims with Vellum. and followed this awesome abstract particle tutorial by entagma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grPVW0vK6PE&t=394s [www.youtube.com]


I am having trouble exporting a Vellum grain spheres simulation to alembic for use in another 3D package. It appears only the points are being exported.

What are is the method/nodes required to export the entire animation of spheres?
project file attached

thank you,