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Hello,

I am working on some tools to help get lights out of unreal and into various DCCs. I saw that clarisse 4.0 lets you reference a usd file via File -> reference -> file. However, when I give that my USD file coming out of unreal something goes wrong. What I get in my clarisse project is a just a UsdXform at the origin and no light.

Here is the usd file I am using:

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#usda 1.0
(
    defaultPrim = "Root"
    endTimeCode = 0
    metersPerUnit = 0.009999999776482582
    startTimeCode = 0
    upAxis = "Z"
)

def Xform "Root"
{
    def SphereLight "PointLight"
    {
        color3f inputs:color = (0.0021246888, 1, 0.002428216)
        float inputs:colorTemperature = 6500
        bool inputs:enableColorTemperature = 0
        float inputs:exposure = 0
        float inputs:intensity = 80000
        float inputs:radius = 0
        bool treatAsPoint = 1
        token visibility = "inherited"
        matrix4d xformOp:transform = ( (2.384185791015625e-7, -0.9999997615814209, -5.960464477539063e-8, 0), (-5.960464477539063e-8, 1.7881393432617188e-7, 0.9999997615814209, 0), (-0.9999997615814209, 0, 1.7881393432617188e-7, 0), (40, 100, 70, 1) )
        uniform token[] xformOpOrder = ["xformOp:transform"]
    }
}


I am currently testing this by exporting the usd file out of unreal 4.27.1 and bringing it in to clarisse 4.0.

I don't know when the studio I work at will switch to clarisse 5.0, so I'm sure that has USD improvements, but if I can find a solution that doesn't involve 5.0 it would be great.

Thank you
Chris

Hi,

Clarisse 4 and 5 do not support USD or Alembic lights. Generally, lighting is done natively in Clarisse, not imported.
You could use the imported Xforms to get the light positions, but you need to create Clarisse lights.

Cheers,

Hello,

Thanks for replying. That's good to know. We will work something else out.

Chris