RenderMan 23.1 introduces the possibility to modify the contents of an existing Alembic archive as its contents is delivered to the renderer.

Supported edits

• Convert a polygonal mesh to a subdivision surface.
• Convert a subdivision surface to a polygonal mesh.
  • Set the mesh normals to fully smooth or fully hard.
• Set or override the following subdivision surface properties:
  • basis: catmull-clark, loop or bilinear
  • interpolate boundary

Convert a mesh to a subdivision surface