Opening Disney's Moana Island scene in Maya

emomobile

If you haven't heard, Disney recently released the production assets for one of the scenes from Moana for public use. You can download the 45GB file from their website. However, it's all .json files, and I don't know how I'm supposed to open them in Maya. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

ProperSquid

So, I have some good news and bad news for you. The good news is json files are readable by most programming languages, so you can fairly easily write your own scene assembly system. The bad news is you have to write said system. However, you are able to open up the obj files to inspect them at your leisure.

oglu

its more or less impossible to reconstruct the file without a TD...
you need to write a python script that will load all files based on the hier/json and assign the ptex textures...
you also need to instace the foliage millions of times... 

and even if you manage to todo all that you need more than 88GB of ram to render the scene...
and its impossible to view the sceene in the viewport ever... its to much data...
you would need to create a lod system.. 

i would first try to load and render the bprt file... 
some info here on matts blog...
http://pharr.org/matt/blog/


http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/07/08/moana-island-pbrt-1.html
http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/07/09/moana-island-pbrt-2.html
http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/07/13/moana-island-pbrt-3.html
http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/07/15/moana-island-pbrt-4.html



there might come an USD materialX based scene in the future... 
but it will be massive...

emomobile

Yikes. That's what I was afraid of. I'm no TD, to be sure; couldn't code my way out of a wet paper bag. But thanks for the link to the blog. I'll check it out.