Maniphest T102424

Alembic Imported Camera - misses Focal Length Animation & Depth of Field Animation
Closed, Duplicate

Assigned To
None
Authored By
Alex Pi (korochanew)
Nov 11 2022, 11:16 AM
Tags
  • BF Blender
  • Alembic
  • Import/Export
Subscribers
Alex Pi (korochanew)
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk)

Description

System Information
Operating system: Windows 10
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

Blender Version
Broken: All Blender versions
Worked: None

Short description of error
When Alembic camera with "focal length animation" is imported into blender - there is no animation for focal lens - it stays same as first frame focal length mm
Same goes for Focus Distance (Depth of Field)

Temporal solution
The solution is to use Side program like Maya:

  1. Import alembic with camera into maya;
  2. Export camera as FBX from Maya;
  3. Import Camera FBX into Blender;
  4. Copy Animation of Focal Length and Focus Distance from FBX Camera to Alembic Camera.


A great solution would be if whyle importing Alembics - there would be an option to import it Localized, and also with desired framerate to chose.

Event Timeline

Alex Pi (korochanew) created this task.Nov 11 2022, 11:16 AM
Alex Pi (korochanew) updated the task description.
Alex Pi (korochanew) added projects: Alembic, Import/Export.Nov 11 2022, 11:19 AM
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) added a subscriber: Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk).Nov 11 2022, 12:02 PM

This unfortunately is still under discussion in regards to how this should be implemented properly, see T54050: Alembic: Camera properties (focal length, focus distance, ...) animation not importing, will merge reports.