Referenced assets for rendering with standalone

[Joelaff]

Can Standalone (via vrscene) render with external assets like .abc files, or vrayproxy files?

I have a scene that imports some splines and particles via Alembic (Using the VRayProxy as a loader), and I am trying to figure out a way to not have to copy these big assets to a very large vrscene every time I want to render. I would rather make use of a reference to an existing asset for a number of reasons (including caching on cloud render services like AWS with Deadline).

Is there an efficient way to handle such external files without embedding them in the vrscene every time?

Thanks.

[vladimir_krastev]

Hi, thanks for posting. The vrscene supports VRayProxy loader and loads the mesh as in normal scene, during rendering.

[Joelaff]

Thanks for the reply.

I think it is actually working with my Alembic files right now. I believe my giant vrscene files were due to another issue I just brought up in the issues forum.

This is good to know, though, as I work likely change some other assets over to vray proxy format.

Thanks.

[Joelaff]

I am seeing the VRayProxy loader still embeds Alembic particle data in the vrscene file. Is there some way to force it to reference the external files?

Exporting to PRT and using a PRTReader works, but I would rather use the Alembic if possible in some cases.

Thanks.