read_Alembic

Reads Bifrost points, strands, and meshes from an Alembic file, and outputs the resulting objects.

Inputs

filename

The file name.

directory

The directory.

frame

The frame number.

frame_rate

The frame rate.

interpolation

The interpolation method for interpolating data at sub-frame positions.

properties

A space-delimited list of properties to read.

Outputs

meshes

The output Bifrost meshes.

Limitations

• Does not retain object hierarchies upon loading.
• Does not support loading NURBS and subdivision surfaces.
• Does not explicitly load transforms but transforms the data on load.
• Bounding box data is not loaded.
• Data of type half is not currently supported in Bifrost, and is loaded into data of type float.
• Data of type wchar is not currently supported in Bifrost, so strings of wchar are not loaded.
• Quaternions are not explicitly supported in Bifrost and loaded into float4.
• Color types are not explicitly supported in Bifrost and loaded into corresponding float and uchar types.
• Normal types are not explicitly supported in Bifrost and loaded into corresponding float and double types.

points

The output Bifrost points.

strands

The output Bifrost strands.