Maya -> Max hair translation

[Paul Oblomov]

I wonder - is there any solutions for this ?
For example, did hairs with maya and now I need to transfer it to max. Knowing, that vray can render hairs with its own hair primitives - how to transfer ?

P.S. Meshing is not an option

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For those, who wish to try:
free alembic for 3dsmax
1) http://www.dfx.co.jp/dftalk/?p=5916

and export to alembic in maya 2013

[vlado]

The only way for the moment is to use the Exocortex Crate tools to export an Alembic file from Maya, bring it into 3ds Max and use Ornatrix and VRayOrnatrixMod to render the resulting splines. (This might get easier in the future when we add support for Alembic files with spline primitives.)

Best regards,
Vlado

[Paul Oblomov]

Do you know - does maya export splines to alembic ? There's a free reader for max I hope to get it all free of charge.

[Paul Oblomov]

It works. Well... it imports in max without any problem. Can't seem to render with *mod

[vlado]

It works. Well... it imports in max without any problem. But, the hair strands are nurbs Can I put vray hairs on top of the nurbs ?

Not directly for the moment, although perhaps we have to look into it. From what I remember, you can use Ornatrix to convert them to hair that V-Ray can render.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Paul Oblomov]

Yep. Ornatrix - guides from sape. But I need to convert nurbs to shape first

So, for the moment using sweep/enable in renderer option.

[Paul Oblomov]

Maya hangs, exporting 1500 nurbs curves to alembic....

[vlado]

Eh well, was worth a shot The guys at Exocortex are quite responsive, so you can maybe try contacting them...

Best regards,
Vlado

[Paul Oblomov]

Just tried exocortex for maya
It not only hangs, but even crash!

[Paul Oblomov]

BTW - excellent hair material! Valdo - you're the best!!!
http://funkyimg.com/u2/2684/668/744142hair1.jpg

[jacksc02]

Cant see the image Paul

[Paul Oblomov]

But I can

Guys, aby thoughts about ornatrix ? They gave me the beta build, but can't start to test it, because it just doesn't work! Seems, like something physx related, but forum is absolutely dead. Anybody here using it ?