Ok animagic. Going there now. Thanks!

My understanding is that the Alembic format is open and standardized, which is why it used extensively. While testing the feature I had no problem importing the Alembic file exported from iClone into another 3D application.

I suggest though that we discuss this in the Python plugin forum to avoid clutter.

I started a topic here: https://forum.reallusion.com/430757/Importing-Alembic-with-Python.

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I'm just using characters from DAZ, and pretty much the default characters at that. I can send you an Alembic version of a base Daz character if that would help, but I think that most of you have Daz. Like iClone, Daz exports Alembic, but doesn't import it as you already know. Still, if you could get the Alembic format from Daz to come in, that would at least prove that Alembic import is possible with iClone. I'm already aware of the very easy way to bring in Daz files via the CC3 transformer, but that doesn't solve my Marvelous Designer issue. Thanks to all involved in trying to find a solution! It might be that we will just have to wait until Reallusion has whatever justification they need to take this seriously enough to implement it.

Tried this some time ago and all I kept getting is the following error

<class 'TypeError'>,  File: C:\Program Files\Reallusion\iClone 7\Bin64\RLPy.py,  Line: 14698

Chris.

Right. Whatever. Thanks.

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But not a good test -- the whole point of getting such a file is getting it from outside.  These file formats are SO unstandard, as we know from FBX.  We need a real test or it's not worth doing (at least for me -- since you brought it up you can do it yourself and report back to us).

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At least we would know if iClone is able to handle its own way of exporting an alembic file and we would know right away if it works, without outside software interference..
But hey, why doing simple things when it can be complicated ? :D

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I'd prefer it be from an outside program -- iClone may well handle it's own implementation but if I understand the desire for others here that isn't what they want.

Someone could just export something they wanted to get into iClone and we can kill two birds with one stone (assuming it works).  I would have no idea what that might be, though (and apparently it *might* require getting the animation as well?).

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Export something from iClone as Alembic file and see if it loads back ?

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If someone wants to provide an alembric (sp?) file and no one else has the time I'll be glad to take one of my Python programs that already loads file and see if I can get this to work.

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