Crash when replacing an Alembic file while blender is open. #51141

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Luciano Muñoz Sessarego · 2017-04-06T22:55:48+02:00

2017-04-06 22:55:48 +02:00

System Information
Windows - Asus GTX 1060 6Gb

Blender Version
Broken: 2.78.4 7ae9d09
Worked: didn't ever to my knowledge.

When you're doing an alembic pipeline say from maya, you usually will endup replacing alembic files with updated ones, though you might not want to have to close blender, and reopen it so if you have blender open and happen to update the Alembic file with a new one, that IE differs only in animation that will crash blender, i'm attaching 2 ABC files that are similar, will just have a minor difference for you to try.

Open blender 2 blender instances
make an animation on one of them
export ABC
On the second blender instance import ABC file.
then in the first blender instance do some changes, reexport and replace the ABC file you made before.
when you go to the second blender instance
move the timeline
it'll crash.

so for making the process quicker I created 2 alembic files from the same project:

norman_dosposes.abc

norman_dosposesB.abc

let me know if you need anything else!
Cheers!

**System Information** Windows - Asus GTX 1060 6Gb **Blender Version** Broken: 2.78.4 7ae9d09 Worked: didn't ever to my knowledge. When you're doing an alembic pipeline say from maya, you usually will endup replacing alembic files with updated ones, though you might not want to have to close blender, and reopen it so if you have blender open and happen to update the Alembic file with a new one, that IE differs only in animation that will crash blender, i'm attaching 2 ABC files that are similar, will just have a minor difference for you to try. Open blender 2 blender instances make an animation on one of them export ABC On the second blender instance import ABC file. then in the first blender instance do some changes, reexport and replace the ABC file you made before. when you go to the second blender instance move the timeline it'll crash. so for making the process quicker I created 2 alembic files from the same project: [norman_dosposes.abc](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F542329/norman_dosposes.abc) [norman_dosposesB.abc](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F542333/norman_dosposesB.abc) let me know if you need anything else! Cheers!

Luciano Muñoz Sessarego commented

2017-04-06 22:55:48 +02:00

Changed status to: 'Open'

Luciano Muñoz Sessarego commented

2017-04-06 22:55:48 +02:00

Added subscriber: @LucianoMunoz

blender-admin commented

2017-04-06 22:55:48 +02:00

#51489 was marked as duplicate of this issue

Sybren A. Stüvel self-assigned this 2017-04-07 21:09:49 +02:00

Sybren A. Stüvel commented

2017-04-11 11:01:17 +02:00

Thanks for the report! Please attach the files directly to this ticket, instead of linking to Dropbox. That way the ticket will remain valid even when you decide to reorganise your Dropbox ;-)

Luciano Muñoz Sessarego commented

2017-04-11 11:18:01 +02:00

Done, now the files are in the ticket.

Sybren A. Stüvel commented

2017-06-09 08:37:45 +02:00

Added subscribers: @YegorSmirnov, @dr.sybren, @Sergey

Steffen Dünner commented

2017-06-09 10:47:34 +02:00

Added subscriber: @SteffenD

Jason Clarke commented

2017-07-15 05:28:13 +02:00

Added subscriber: @JasonClarke

Luciano Muñoz Sessarego commented

2017-07-15 10:08:56 +02:00

...sooooo.... not fixed yet?

Sybren A. Stüvel commented

2017-07-25 10:18:57 +02:00

Unfortunately, no. It's a tricky one to get right, and there were more pressing issues to focus on first. It might actually be a problem with the Alembic library itself, but I'd need more time to investigate (and time is a scarce commodity). Fortunately there is a workaround (closing Blender while swapping around Alembic files), even though it's a cumbersome one.

Sybren A. Stüvel commented

2017-08-08 16:32:37 +02:00

Seems to be an issue with Alembic itself. I've asked the alembic-discussion mailing list for help.

Seems to be an issue with Alembic itself. I've [asked the alembic-discussion mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alembic-discussion/BXVGvAvtry8) for help.

Sybren A. Stüvel commented

2018-01-26 10:59:44 +01:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Archived'

Sybren A. Stüvel closed this issue

2018-01-26 10:59:44 +01:00

Sybren A. Stüvel commented

2018-01-26 10:59:44 +01:00

Closing this, since it's an upstream Alembic limitation that I can't solve.

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Crash when replacing an Alembic file while blender is open. #51141