Alembic normals bugging out

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hi,

i have a vellum sim baked out of houdini as alembic, and imported into UE5 as a gemoetry cache. I am getting wierd results with normals, please see attached image.

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I have tried recalculating normals from UE, changing normal setting in houdini SOP, changing alembic import settings in UE… nothing works.

The same alembic looks fine when reimported back into houdini or imported into Blender.

Any advice on a fix is much appreciated!

thanks!

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Hi!!, Getting the same problem here. Did you solved it??

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no sorry i ended up doing it in blender :frowning:

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Found a way around. The triangles appearing is due to no transforming the scale before outputing the Alembic.

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oh great. Thanks for reporting back - i’ll keep in mind if I’m working in this again