How to Move a Houdini Alembic Particle's Position in Cinema 4D

Get Destruction Debris Here: thepixellab.net/vfx-elements-volume-01-destruction-debris
Have you ever imported a particle sim from Houdini into Cinema 4D as a .abc Alembic file only to find you can't even move the position of them? They're locked down! I found a workaround to get past this annoying problem. I hope it helps!
-----
Freebies: bit.ly/2POepNu
Tutorials: bit.ly/2nrHiFy
Products: bit.ly/2rHZSti
FOLLOW
The Pixel Lab:
Website: bit.ly/2GwTOOx
Twitter: bit.ly/2rKhJQb
Instagram: bit.ly/2SX8aJh
Facebook: bit.ly/2A7ZM2O
For 400+ free models head to www.thepixellab.net

[@Ruulas808]

Very Thank you!! I find this way!!! again Thank you!!

[@THECHEESIEST]

Absolutely incredible support from Joren and Pixellab. Love your products.

[@thepixellab2011]

Much appreciated!

[@ebimol]

Thank You! very useful tutorial!

[@retouchjewelery4326]

finally someone fixed it !! thank youu

[@GashiryItgo]

thanks, I really wanna get this tip. you save my life about 3-4 days more!!!!

[@JulianZett3D]

At least with redshift you can also use the matrix object instead of the cloner, to have even better viewport performance. Just put a RS object tag on the matrix and enable particle geometry

[@thepixellab2011]

Nice, thanks for the tip!

[@RMAFIRE]

Extremely amazing👆💪

[@loganpenciu7317]

Thank you for this information! Super helpful, you just saved my ass! And just to re-iterate what Julian Zielinski said you can do the same thing but with a Matrix Scatter for Redshift

[@Wayne-sn6qy]

thanks so much you just saved me🤞🤞🤞🤞

[@cemgulpunk]

awesome thanks for the tip

[@thepixellab2011]

Happy to help!

[@jooncult]

Any idea about how to keep/transfer the Cd attribute ? I’m loosing the color Info with this method.

[@joeywong6769]

amazing,but how to get rotaion and psacle in martix.

[@antoniopepe]

in this way the particle dosent keep the orientation, is good only for spheres, there is another way to import orientation in the thinking particle via xpresso tag Pget and Pset attribute.

[@lestatluchalibre]

I am not able to see the Alembic particles in blender what can I do ?

[@shuoyang7461]

Hello, can you publish a houdini to export abc files?

[@thepixellab2011]

Hey mate, I'm really sorry but unfortunately we only offer the exports at this point :(

[@virtual_mess]

this just saved my life..i need to get out of this program lol

[@deeppiledreams]

Can it not all just be moved and scaled in object mode? I am sure that is how I do it.

[@thepixellab2011]

I don't think so, at least it didn't work for me. Try it though and let me know!

[@deeppiledreams]

@@thepixellab2011 Just tried... I am completely wrong yeah sorry must have dreamt that.

[@tim_parker]

cant donwload your file on gumroad T_T

[@thepixellab2011]

Not sure what you mean? We don't have anything on gumroad?

[@brunobordini7696]

C4D needs to improve that workflow!

[@thepixellab2011]

Yes, 100%, kind of crazy!

[@danielbarros5610]

Nice gambiarra, but unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem, only a turn around. Try doing this with a really complex simulation with millions of particles. C4D simply cannot handle.