3dsmax: enhance alembic loader update function #4387
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antirotor
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I feel get_all_children would be a more explicit name?
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"Manage" Item correctly points to the Scene Inventory widget |
Co-authored-by: Roy Nieterau <roy_nieterau@hotmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Roy Nieterau <roy_nieterau@hotmail.com>
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The manage item in the OP menu correctly opens Scene Inventory window.
After loading abc animation cache in latest version v007 tested switching to older one v005 sucesfully as seen on pic below
Then saving and reopening the shot and update abc animation to latest v007 via Scene Inventory worked ok as well.
Might be related to one limitation I've mentioned - when you load alembic in 3dsmax for first time, it will create node for every geometry paths inside the alembic. So if you have: Then if you update version to alembic with different hierarchy, it will update the paths only on already existing nodes, not creating new one or deleting invalid. I left it like this semi-intentionally because the only option to do this properly would be to really delete everything and re-import it, but that would also delete any edits and associations with those nodes. There might be way around this by crawling over the original nodes, serializing any changes and then reapplying them on newly imported nodes but hell.... that's for another PR. |
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Similar problem as what Blender has with dealing with ABCs.... I'd go for it in current state. |
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Enhancement
This PR is adding update/switch ability to pointcache/alembic loader in 3dsmax and fixing wrong tool shown when clicking on "Manage" item on OpenPype menu, that is now correctly Scene Inventory (but was Subset Manager).
Alembic update has still one caveat - it doesn't cope with changed number of object inside alembic, since loading alembic in max involves creating all those objects as first class nodes. So it will keep the objects in scene, just update path to alembic file on them.