Hairworks and Alembic Caches. Hair not following

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Hello,

I’ve managed to get HairWorks working inside of UE4 with a simple, skinned cube with one joint and 8 guide curves. For the next step, I wanted to create an Alembic Cache of the animated cube, and apply the hair to the cache inside of the Unreal Engine.

I was able to import the Alembic Cache using the Alembic Importer as a Skeletal mesh, and I see the cube playing the animation. I created an Actor blueprint, stuck in the Skeletal mesh, and attached a HairWorks component along with the correct .apx file.

However, the fur doesn’t follow the animated cube. The fur remains in its original position. Is there a way to get Alembic Caches to cooperate with HairWorks? This would be ideal for us because our rigs are fairly complex, and using caches to bring in our animations simplifies the process quite a bit. We’d like to get hair on the character and also have it follow the geometry accordingly.

Are there any steps we can take to get HairWorks to work with Alembic Caches?

Thanks in advance,

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Hi

Did you have any luck getting this to work?

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Hi ,

Unfortunately not. Maybe it’ll be something we try again at a later date…

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Hi

Thanks for getting back to me.

I’m going to give gFur a try.

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