From 535aa5b29be4112ce94f7f25a2ecf19486b35266 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ondrej Samohel <ondrej.samohel@orbi.tools>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 19:04:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] handle invalid file type

---
 openpype/tools/mayalookassigner/vray_proxies.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/openpype/tools/mayalookassigner/vray_proxies.py b/openpype/tools/mayalookassigner/vray_proxies.py
index d2f345e628..9252f22d8f 100644
--- a/openpype/tools/mayalookassigner/vray_proxies.py
+++ b/openpype/tools/mayalookassigner/vray_proxies.py
@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ def get_alembic_paths_by_property(filename, attr, verbose=False):
     filename = filename.replace("\\", "/")
     filename = str(filename)  # path must be string
 
-    archive = alembic.Abc.IArchive(filename)
+    try:
+        archive = alembic.Abc.IArchive(filename)
+    except RuntimeError:
+        # invalid alembic file - probably vrmesh
+        log.warning("{} is not an alembic file".format(filename))
+        return {}
     root = archive.getTop()
 
     iterator = list(root.children)