Hi cgdvs,
The data is all there. However, looking at this thread:
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/41947...ost-188415
It seems Houdini specifically expects to find it under 'arbGeomParams', which is unfortunately just an arbitrary Houdini convention rather than something that makes sense within the Alembic format.
I believe it should still be possible to access the params in the modified format since I had a Houdini user specifically request that it not go within 'arbGeomParams'. However, I don't know Houdini and don't know how that user was accessing the extra params, so I can't offer you any advice in that regard.
It's unfortunate that Alembic is such a disjointed format, with no real official standards that I'm aware of and many different ways to do the same thing (Maya, Max, Houdini, C4D all load Alembic in different ways and support different features of it in different ways, and for that reason it's a very annoying format to work with)...however, I will add an option in the next build to support 'arbGeomParams' again so that the data can be loaded in the same way as before.
The data is all there. However, looking at this thread:
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/41947...ost-188415
It seems Houdini specifically expects to find it under 'arbGeomParams', which is unfortunately just an arbitrary Houdini convention rather than something that makes sense within the Alembic format.
I believe it should still be possible to access the params in the modified format since I had a Houdini user specifically request that it not go within 'arbGeomParams'. However, I don't know Houdini and don't know how that user was accessing the extra params, so I can't offer you any advice in that regard.
It's unfortunate that Alembic is such a disjointed format, with no real official standards that I'm aware of and many different ways to do the same thing (Maya, Max, Houdini, C4D all load Alembic in different ways and support different features of it in different ways, and for that reason it's a very annoying format to work with)...however, I will add an option in the next build to support 'arbGeomParams' again so that the data can be loaded in the same way as before.