Splines / Hair caches from Houdini

How-To
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Hi!

I’m using the learning edition of Notch; was just wondering if there’s a way to import splines (and therefore hair caches) from Houdini? If so, is there a trick to rendering them, do they shade as normal? I’ve seen a couple of posts where people get them from c4d, but not houdini. I’ve tried abc, obj, fbx, can’t get it to display, unless I do a polywire before export, which pushes the poly count too high.

Thanks
Dave

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Hello Dave,
At the moment Notch does not support hair simulations, but check out this post by Josh Eason. He did a great job of faking it - https://vimeo.com/288832718
He shared DFX file of his setup - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tAOrZ1e8P_IsW1g2Ef0tPIZ8xCrYMewW/view?fbclid=IwAR36QYaf5lxMZBdjbYZwL6n16r_51TuTJeymNv4G6s9s2RucRuvASP07Za0

Best,
Armin

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Hey, thanks for the reply;

I’m less interested in the simulation aspect, more the idea of bringing in external caches. I just thought that because you can import meshes ok, splines might be possible. It says it can in the help docs, but it doesn’t work with me.

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Could you send your workfile and assets to support@notch.one for inspection?