The Alembic file format allows for very efficient storage of geometry and other scene data, which can now be referenced directly in Maxwell 3Render v3. Support for Alembic includes static and animated geometry as well as particles, improving the speed and efficiency of your workflow.
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With the Alembic native support, Maxwell will recognize the materials of the exported .abc file and will automatically assign each material to each single face if they already exists exist in the scene. Otherwise it will create the materials list given in the .abc file if they were missing in are missing from the scene.
In Maxwell, the Alembic files are supported through the MXObjectAlembic extension object:
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- Scene scale: General scale factor for the whole imported scene
- Alembic file: Path to the Alembic file.
- Frame number: In case of Alembic files that contain timeline animation information, this value indicates the number of the frame on frame in the Alembic sequence to be loaded.
- FPS: Frames per second for the imported animation.
- Shutter Speed: Interval (in 1/sec) to calculate the transformation motion blur of each frame in the sequence.
- Xform Substeps: Number of substeps considered for the transformation motion blur on each shutter speed interval (centered in the frame in courseuse).
- File Axis System: Indicate Indicates the axis that will serve as the scene's height axis, derived from the axis system with which the Alembic file were created.
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- Force Recalculate Normals: Enable this option when you want your mesh to look smooth regarding from a certain angle.
- Angle Threshold: Define Defines the angle below which the normals are interpolated, resulting on an in a smooth look.
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Find more information about the Alembic format specification in the Alembic Documentation site. |
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