Phoenix to Mesh / Alembic

[pipe_mm]

Hello,
we are trying to do a keyframe animation on top of a Phoenix Sim.
As the sim is pretty heavy, we cannot scrub the timeline
so it would be nice to bake a simplified version of the liquid mesh.

is it possible to bake liquid simulation meshes to alembic?
so far we only found this hack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYFKzXGLrdA

thanks for support
Martin

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey, sure, check these out:

https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...cachetoAlembic
https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...cachetoAlembic

Hope this helps

[pipe_mm]

Thank you Svetlin for the turbo-boost-fast answere

[pipe_mm]

I dont find an option to set the level detail of the generated Maya mesh.
is there an otption to make the Maya mesh more/less detailed?
thank you

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Ah, negative, no detail reduction for the mesh yet. Will add a vote to it in our task list....

[pipe_mm]

Thank you - generating the alembic takes a while, but loading and previewing it as a Vray Proxy is pretty fast