exporting particles to alembic,slow like a slow death, taking days

[lzmihich]

Hi Ivaylo
I successfully exported my ocean mass of water as mesh
and configured the export for this and took unreasonable 17
hours , for 400 frames, not kidding.
I am exporting to Isotropix clarisse and will use alembic point cloud info only
, is there a way to use cache files ? am i doing anything wrong ?
With particles , I set the export option to particles and
selected the Phoenix liquid simulator only, not the shaders,
Well 17 hours made for half of it , and I just could not wait.
I am using exocortex crate and selection ,
Please clarify why this export module is so slow ,and I can't find any useful
tip in the help . Are you adressing those export issues in the nightlies ?
That said, Congratulation on the team !
I am very happy with Phoenix 3.0 overall, and I know , many other users.
I am amazed with the development and simplicity of use that has been achieved
in comparison.
Please don't give up of the tutorials , for a guide ,see the advertised new features
which functionality, we've been guessing so far, the example scenes and presets do help.

[Ivaylo Katev]

Hi Izmichich, i'm afraid that can't help you, not familiar with the export (see my signature )but hopefully Georgi or Svetlin can.

[lzmihich]

I am using Vray 3.4 for rendering and works well
I wanna to compare with exporting to clarisse , in order to decide about the best pipeline
can Georgi or Svetlin reply to this thread as well ?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hi,

You can try several different things - you can switch between Ogawa/HDF5 format of the Alembic export and you could also try exporting using 3ds Max's built-in Alembic exporter if you are using a newer version of Max. Compare the speed with those methods. If it's still slow, you can drop the scene to Support so we can check it.

Thanks!