A youtube presentation of the Alembic fileformat

[curly]

It starts to become interesting at 8:20 minutes when they are talking about file size and performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I__MeR8jsFk


Does anyone know whether you can export Flip fluids from Houdini to softimage in the Alembic file format? ( I hope this is not a stupid question.)

[bhouston]

A lot of Softimage studios have adopting Alembic into their pipelines. While I am clearly biased I would argue that Softimage has the best Alembic workflow out of all the DCCs at the moment because of Helge Mathee's hard work in the area:

http://exocortex.com/alembic/alembic_for_softimage

These testimonials about Alembic are primarily about the Softimage implementation:

http://exocortex.com/alembic/testimonials

Generally Alembic allows you to cache out all the geometry and import it back into the other platforms. I understand that Alembic support with Houdini R12 is fairly decent (not so with R11), although I am unsure if FLIP fluids are supported at this time.

[Rez007]

You guys do do some pretty amazing work over there - keep it up.