Alembic Export 

Alembic (.abc) is the standard interchange format for hair, widely supported across renderers and DCC applications. Exporting your groom to Alembic is the usual way to take finished hair out of Ornatrix App and render or work with it elsewhere, and it is also how you create the caches used by the Animation Cache Operator.

 

Exporting hair 

Export the current groom's hair to an Alembic file through the export dialog. The dialog lets you control how the hair is written so it matches what your downstream renderer or application expects. Animated grooms can be exported across a frame range, producing an animated cache.

 

What you can export 

• Static hair or guides as curve data.
• Animated hair over a frame range, as a cache that plays back elsewhere or in the App.

 

Common uses 

• Hand finished hair to a renderer that reads Ornatrix-compatible Alembic curves.
• Create an animation cache to load back into the Animation Cache Operator for fast, repeatable playback.
• Archive a groom's hair as a portable, renderer-neutral file.

 

Related 

• Alembic Import - bring Alembic hair or geometry back in.
• USD Export - export to USD instead.
• Importing and Exporting Geometry - overview of all interchange in the App.

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