DavidRindner I would like to bring Houdini particle sims into RF, generate the RF_Mesh in RF, and then bring that mesh into Maya. Also, remember that sometimes Houdini doesn't convert some geo into tri-polys correctly, sometimes this requires checking the data via a. Hope this helps, let me know if you continue to run into problems. –MarkĪhh, OK, now I see what you want to do, though from reading the previous posts I think you may be mixed up on a few points, let me see if I can help make it more clear. First, if you'd like to make a “Houdini->Maya bridge” to get Houdini particles into Maya, why not just save out. obj files in SOP's and then import them into Maya? Second, RF's BIN format is for both mesh and particles, but you can only import particles into RF with it's BIN loaders, I don't know if they plan to implement mesh BIN file imports. What you mentioned in your last post about exporting RF particle BIN files from POPs is something I've thought about doing but haven't had the time yet, but if you (and others) really need this soon I suppose I could start working on it, though I'd rather finsih the rest of the work on the current set of plugins and I need to re-work all the tutorials. May I ask is this for a “real” project or are you just “playing around” with RF/Houdini/Maya I'm trying get a sense of your needs. I just joined a Maya shop that is bringing Houdini into its pipeline. My task is to make Houdini, Maya, RealFlow, Rush, and Mental Ray (farm) all work together for creation of liquid and particle effects.

The shop's pipeline is solid when only Maya, RealFlow, Mental Ray, and Rushes are involved. I just need a bridge to get Houdini's particle data into Maya. Specifically RealFlow exports motion blur and UVW coordinates in its meshes, that are loaded through RF Loader in Maya.

EXPORT REALFLOW TO CINEMA 4D PROFESSIONALīecouse of that I would like to use RF as bridge to bring in Houdini generated particle sims into Maya.

It would be awesome if someone of you could give me a push in the right direction. The other thing is, that im bound to the number of my houdini engine licenses when im using HDA what is also a big problem for me. Also i can't see the vertex map inside of my viewport. That means i can use the Vertex Map inside a shader, but i can't use the Map for generating other stuff like vertex based TFD simulation (wich is what i need to do, heat based smoke emission). (import HDA, duplicate object below the asset wich is referring to my mesh, collapse it, copy the vertex map onto the uncollapsed object, and then it works. I desperately need to get my temperature colour onto my mesh. I can export it via Alembic or as HDA an i got my sim and everything looks fine, so heres the kicker. I got a Lavasim wich i NEED to render in c4d. But i got a question regarding getting dynamic topology from houdini to c4d as well.

Im not sure whether this thread is already closed or not.

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