Attaching particles to a Geometry Cache

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Hello,

I was curious if anyone knew of a way to attach particles to an object with Cascade or Niagara, specifically a alembic geometry cache and have particles emit from the location of the animated object.

I’ve seen that you can do it with a skeletal mesh but wasn’t sure how or if it was even possible with a geometry cache.

Thanks,

Nathan

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Hi Nathan,

I’m facing the same problem of not getting the Alembic geometry cache to work with Niagra. StaticMesh & Skeleton mesh works fine but I’m working with Photogrammetry point clouds in .XZY and Volumetric Capture in .ABC

Did you find any work around?

Regards,
Sumedh

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Hey
I would look into Houdini’s plug-in with Unreal. I have it working with point cache abc from my volumetric capture. You only need the free apprentice licence to get it working.

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Hey there have you had any luck with working this out? Facing the same issue atm.

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i hope it will suppot in UE soon… for now yes it works on skeletal mesh

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Thanks for the reply. I’ll try skeletal mesh, might be easier then how I “solved” the problem. By attaching a sphere to my animation, then exporting that as an FBX, and then adding a socket to that, then hiding that mesh haha. A very round about way but I’m new to unreal, and it worked for now :man_shrugging:

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Facing the same issue. Geometry cache support would be amazing!

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Am late to the party… did a solution ever arrive for this?

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hi, guys. any solutions?