Re: point caching

[Adam Sale <adamsale(at)shaw.ca>]

Hey Bernard...I couldn't find any way to read MDD in Maya, except when using Point Oven..

I believe the built in Point Cache reader, only read MC (maya cache) files. I had to spend the 100 bones on Point oven to get the MDD reader, which worked like a charm.. I had a couple of issues with scale and placement of assets when using the reader, but nothing a scale and relocate couldn't fix.

 

Note: I didn't try the reader with a dearth of points.. the character I used was about 20000 polys.

for that number of verts, it was very fast, no lag whatsoever..

 

Adam

----- Original Message -----
From: Oz Adi <oz@broadcast.co.il>
Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 8:49 am
Subject: Re: point caching
To: XSI@Softimage.COM

> We used .mdd's for this project:
> http://www.broadcast.co.il/dispVideo.asp?PID=40&OID=94&DivID=8
>
> worked really good, rigging and animation done in XSI, all the
> rest in maya.
> It's was fairly a simple project, so we didn't face any real
> problems
> with point oven.
>
> point oven licenses are very cheap if I remember correctly..
>
> Oz.
>
>
> Bernard Lebel wrote:
> > Correct me if I'm wrong but the Maya plugins allow you to read Point
> > Oven's mdd files. mdd file export is built-in XSI....
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Bernard
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 8, 2008 10:40 AM, Alastair
> <hearsum@glassworks.co.uk> wrote:
> >  
> >>  Hello
> >>
> >>  Does anyone have any advice/info about point caching to
> enable transfer of
> >> animation from XSI to maya. KP_pointcaching looked promising
> until I looked
> >> closely and saw there was no Maya reader. I  had heard a
> couple of negative
> >> comments about point-oven regarding flakiness and slowness.
> Any advice
> >> appreciated.
> >>
> >>  Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >>
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