If anyone has to deal with Houdini, there is a free third-party
Python-based SOP for MDD reading/writing:
http://undo.fi/houdini/mdd/
Haven't tried it myself but read some good things of it on some forums.
-- Alan
On Jan 8, 2008 10:04 AM, Adam Sale <adamsale(at)shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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(at)broadcast.co.il>
> Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 8:49 am
> Subject: Re: point caching
> To: XSI(at)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(at)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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