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Referencing an Alembic mesh

Referencing an Alembic mesh - Maya Tutorial

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Referencing an Alembic mesh

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- [Instructor] After caching out a heavy Alembic file, I recommend that you exit Maya, just to flush out all memory and virtual memory. Here we have the end result of that calculation. I have an alembic.abc file that is 40 GB in size. I've copied that into my Maya project, in the folder cache > alembic. Let's restart Maya now and import that Alembic mesh. I've got a BIF mesh sequence in this scene already, and it's on the layer liquid_mesh_cache_layer. Turn off its visibility. We've also got the liquid_mesh_layer, which is the BiFrost mesh output, but it's currently disabled in the Attributes. We can press the Play button now and notice that my frames per second is about 30, and that tells me, if the cache object is not visible, then the cache is not loaded from disc. We can stop in the timeline and rewind. Go up into the FX menu set, to the Cache menu and choose Alembic Cache, and we have multiple options here. If we chose Open, that would completely replace the current scene, so we…

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