Import Alembic files with Materials (Unreal Engine + Cinema 4D Tutorial)

[@Unknowable_Void]

Hugely helpful man. I tried this workflow years ago and abandoned it because of not knowing about the flatten tracks issue for materials. gamechanger, thanks for this

[@cartandhorse]

Glad it helped! I spent years thinking there was no other way and dealing with hack workarounds.

[@konoboi]

Thanks alot dude for your time! Oh gosh because of this flatten track, I can't fix materials! This tut is a life savior. Thank you! Definitely deserve a follow

[@cartandhorse]

So glad this helped! Let us know if there are more topics you would like to see covered.

[@indurolog]

I've been digged all the youtube for a usefull video for baking c4d deformers animation. Thank you so much!!!

[@braedongarner]

I can't thank you enough. So many hours later. All one check box!!! lol

[@cartandhorse]

I know your pain

[@antoniopepe]

Great... Flattern Tracks for retaining material tag, i never associate to this. :D good to know ! thanks

[@KunPiyanush]

MASSIVE THANK YOU !!, IT WORKED !

[@izunwrapped]

This is super useful! Thank you! I’m really curious if it’s possible to create the same (or similar) animation in Unreal. Do you know if there’s a way to bend/deform the mesh using splines in unreal? (like the way you have the petal bending and unfolding using a spline wrap)

[@cartandhorse]

I am working on a few different ways of stacking pieces to build it in Unreal. There are a number of ways to rebuild it in Unreal, but none of them are simple and I need to build something to start from in C4D or Blender.

[@gfxess]

thank you bro,, really helpful.. just a quick note, please check the volume of the SFX of your channel outro it just blasted off my headphones

[@thelightsarebroken]

Thank you so much for this, i honestly had given up all hope that it was possible to multi texture my layered cloth sim

[@cartandhorse]

I am glad this helped!

[@kuunami]

Very cool stuff

[@maliyah003]

Thankyou so much ❤

[@MartySergio]

Thank you so much!!!

[@danD315D]

Cool Video! Have you tried importing softbodies? I tried it and had a lot of mess with multiple balls intertwined with each other.

[@cartandhorse]

I have not tried it yet.

[@wowersdh1]

when I import alembic there too many material slots. for example with your flower, I set 4 meterials but when I imported, there's 100 of material slots(material slot for each leaf of flower) Any help?

[@cartandhorse]

The first thing I would try, would be to put your entire model (for me it was the flower) into an empty Null in C4D, then put that null inside of a Connect object. You will want to turn off "weld" and "high quality", then try exporting that connect and all of its children. If you are using 1 material for the whole model, try applying the material higher up in the chain. Maybe apply it to the Connect object or parent null? Hopefully any combination of those may help reduce the amount of material tags. If I had to guess, C4D is exporting a material assignment per clone? Best of luck!

[@oneup9166]

@@cartandhorse yeah that did it, I was animating some blinds for a archviz projekt and I exportet several "windows" in one alembic and at first I got a material element for every little detail so it was literally hundreds of materials, but with a null in a connect object now i got 5 which is perfect. Thanks man!

[@christiandebney1989]

my life has been dominated by this today i tried uncehckking that but its still not working :( i have a character with several materials and only one material comes through.

[@cartandhorse]

Sorry to hear that. Have you tried importing the alembic into c4d to check that the materials are there? I would also suggest to double check the export settings in c4d. Outside of that, I haven't encountered the materials not importing correctly.

[@Initial-SHK]

can use vray material?

[@cartandhorse]

I haven't tried but I don't think so

[@Initial-SHK]

@@cartandhorse only work with std material?

[@cartandhorse]

@thinoe1168 that is my preferred choice

[@Initial-SHK]

@@cartandhorse ok thx for informations,...🫡