magneto Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I have some temporary objects (boxes) which I use as a Bounding Object for a Group SOP where I want to select the whole connected spheres if any of the points are selected in the Group. After selecting these points, converting them to prims in the Group still doesn't select the whole connected object. How can I achieve this? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macha Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 How about you merge these little boxes and then you should be able to select everything at once, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papicrunch Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 hello, not sure is the best solution but with help of foreach and 2 attribe promote, one detail and second primitive you can delete the desired spheres. have fun attribute.hipnc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magneto Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Thanks guys. @Macha, I am not sure how do you mean merge the boxes? They are a single object as well, created using the Copy SOP. @papicrunch, near trick, that seems to work. Didn't think it would be this involved but still clever If anyone has other ways to do this, I would like to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macha Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Oh, I think I see what you mean. Sorry, I misunderstood. In that case. You could add an attribute to the selected points, foreach loop through the objects and attribute promote all points to max. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magneto Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Thanks, I see what you mean. papicrunch's solution is the same/similar. I didn't know this was a common problem solved with this pattern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
symek Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Fun with SolverSOP skk. solverSOP_deletes_infected.hipnc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magneto Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 That's pretty amazing Symek I thought Solver SOP was for sims, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbukovec Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Hi, another method is that this group you created is your preselect group, so lets assume to call it preselect. Now put down another group sop, set it to points, turn off the enable toggle on the first page, go to edge tab, turn it on. Turn on edge depth, and in the points group field choose your preselect group, then adjust your edge depth accordingly. I use this all the time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magneto Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 That's a very cool method, and seems to work faster. Thanks for that trick man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netvudu Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 whoa! oh my, I didn´t know that edge trick...It´s so simple. Thanks for that dbukovec! You really learn something new every day in Houdini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbukovec Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 My pleasure guys, another nice feature would be if the group sop could also shrink selection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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