Reading Houdini OBJ/FBX Output

Hey guys!

Currently trying to implement EmberGen in my Houdini workflow, but seems like EmberGen has a problem with the OBJ and FBX Output, which Houdini is providing. Reading such a file just drops an ‘Unsupported File’ error. When importing said OBJ in Blender and Exporting it again as OBJ, it works fine. Alembic Output out of Houdini also works, I think. But would still be interested in a working option for Houdini OBJ/FBX files.

Maybe I can do something in Houdini to get it work?

Uploaded a test sphere out of Houdini and re-exported out of Blender here:

Test OBJ Files

Hey thanks for sharing this with us! We are aware of this issue and we will hopefully address it in the future, but we are working on a few other projects at the moment. Let us know if you have any other issues or questions in the meantime!

Hey I came across this same issue, I was wondering if it is just a simple mismatch of fbx versions? do you happen to know what exporter version of fbx ember gen uses? Or is the issue more complex than that?

hey can you send over the files that you’re using? I’ll check them out and see if i can replicate the behavior