How to build PyAlembic from zero.

Simone Tartaglia

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Oct 30, 2023, 1:22:37 PM10/30/23

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Hello! I am a Maya user who is trying to use alembic as a interchange format for point clouds.

I am a-ok with Python programming however, I am relatively new when it comes to build binaries from repos, so I am here to ask for help to try making sense of everything I have been able to find around this forum and the web in regards to the process of having a working PyAlembic module to import in order to create my scripts.

I am windows based and using Python 3.10, cmake version 3.28

My understanding so far of what is needed:

1 - boost to create python 3.10 bindings

2 - Imath source code to make Imath libraries and also PyImath (using boost and python 3.10 bindings from boost)

3 - Alembic source code to make Alembic libraries but also PyAlembic (using boost and PyImath)

Is this the right way of getting what I need?

thank you so much in advance!
Best,

Simo.

Lucas Miller

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Oct 31, 2023, 12:00:32 PM10/31/23

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Yes this is correct!

Since you are using Maya, it might already ship with the PyAlembic bindings (import alembic).

Lucas

Simone Tartaglia

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Oct 31, 2023, 1:32:19 PM10/31/23

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This is great! thank you so much for your help.
I have just tried it and it works!