Xmesh as source emitter

[cam.crichton]

I have an alembic with a changing point count that refuses to export correctly. It exports fine as an Xmesh, but Xmesh is not accepted as an emitter.

Any suggestions or help much appreciated.

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[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey, could you share a bit more information - are you using the Maya native exporter for a Phoenix mesh? What hapoens when you do that, i.e. what is not correct about the mesh?

Here is a video on exporting alembic from Phoenix in Maya - are you following these precisely? https://docs.chaos.com/display/PHX4MAYA/How+to+Videos

Cheers!

[cam.crichton]

Thanks for the response Svetlin. I have a mesh from TyFlow in Max exported to Maya via Xmesh because Alembic doesn't maintain the material IDs in a changing point count. It is a tearing flesh effect.

I have that in Maya as an Xmesh and I want to add the blood splatters etc - but Phoenix was throwing errors saying that it is not a polygon object.

I tried to get the alembic to work but went back to the Xmesh and found this "Save as Polymesh" in the options. Turning that on makes the error go away. I am simulating with that export as the emitter now and it seems to be working fine.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Ahaa, glad you found a way! Will take a note to check what are these errors that appeared for you. Do they appear even if you just simulate a tapwater preset and try to export that?

[cam.crichton]

I'll try that and let you know.

I have another issue affecting this simulation. I notice that I can't interact with the alembic (or Xmesh). The spotted mesh is the emitter and the grey surrounding is the alembic. It will only emit when excluded from the scene.

[cam.crichton]

OK - new scene and the tap sim - no issues. There must be something wacky in the original scene. I have the whole thing working now. Thank you for the assistance.

PS: it looks awesome!