Alembic Materials Always Named "Default"

ryanroye

Currently, material groups always import into Toolbag as "Default". I do understand that Alembic does not store material information, but it does store material group names at the very least. I have tried this with several different programs (Blender, Lightwave, Maya), and they all produce the same result. Does anyone else get this issue? If so, is there a way around it? My intention was to import via FBX, then import Alembic so that it inherits the FBX surfacing (since most FBX exporters don't support point cache data).

RN

I noticed the same. Maya says on the docs that it writes the name of the face-sets in the Alembic file.
Blender also writes the names to the file, it creates face-sets based on the names of the materials that separate them.

So this would be a piece of feedback: to let Toolbag load Alembic face-set names instead of using 'Default' for all, so it's easier to assign Toolbag materials to them.

EarthQuake

I'll add this to our bug tracking system, thanks for the report.