probiner Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 (edited) Hi I was looking for a way to mark/group edges and make them hard in terms of smoothing and this is what I came up with: I couldn't find a standard way to do this. Maybe an edge option in the Normal node would be cool. Cheers HardEdges.hipnc Edited July 22, 2017 by probiner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noobini Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 (edited) here's mine...it maybe clunky..but it does use only whatever 'standard' nodes avail... vu_HardEdges.hipnc Actually, I just tried simply plugging in your scene to an edgecusp (skipping the subnet) and it works...am I missing something really obvious ? OK, a bit clearer now...I'm selecting faces/prims while you're selecting edges...so you could be trying to 'crease' some single line rather than a closed loop from some faces....still, once you've got the lines I'm puzzled why you don't just feed it straight into an edgecusp ? Edited July 21, 2017 by Noobini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
probiner Posted July 21, 2017 Author Share Posted July 21, 2017 Hi Noobini, because I want to persever the geometry. I just want to have Hard Edges based on marking and Edge Cusp opens the geometry, which you can see by simply plugging a Point Jitter with a small amount after it, the mesh opens, I want the same exact mesh but with hard edges. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noobini Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 (edited) no my question is why bother with the subnet ? after you've selected the edges...why not plug them straight into edgecusp ? why overcomplicate thing with the subnet ? Edited July 22, 2017 by Noobini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
probiner Posted July 22, 2017 Author Share Posted July 22, 2017 (edited) Edge Cusp opens the mesh. Now, the scene I've uploaded first did not have the subnet output the proper node (Attribute VOP) so the sense of it might have been lost. Sorry about that. OP scene file fixed. Cheers Edited July 22, 2017 by probiner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
probiner Posted July 22, 2017 Author Share Posted July 22, 2017 I just noticed though that while you can't set the normals on edges, you can use a group of edges... So there's that.... x) Edge Group > Set on Vertices with 0 threshold! Eh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noobini Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 (edited) On 22/07/2017 at 2:56 PM, probiner said: Edge Cusp opens the mesh. Now, the scene I've uploaded first did not have the subnet output the proper node (Attribute VOP) so the sense of it might have been lost. Sorry about that. OP scene file fixed. Cheers ahhhh that's why I was puzzled....couldn't see the point when your sphere was still being split (with jitter) yeah so now if I put display flag on the attribvop, your sphere doesn't get split anymore....thanks for pointing out. And I noticed Facet opens up a mesh as well....hmm..... Edited July 27, 2017 by Noobini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houdini7 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 You have principly two ways in houdini you can make hard edges. With manipulating normals of points or manipulating normals of vertices. Any way to make a hard edge when manipulating point normals works in such a way, that a point is "opened up" or made unique. Means from one point you will get more points which have a normal and therefore a hard edge if the normals are not identical. The other way is to use vertices. There is a trick which enables you to circumvent the "opened up" mesh. The first step is to generate point normals (normal SOP, and select points in the options). Then you can edge cusp to get a hard edge (like in the method described above). But the hard edge generates unique points ("upened up" mesh). So to solve this issue you promote the point normals to the vertices with the Attribute Promote SOP and then you fuse the unique ("opened up") points. This way you will have your hard edges and the mesh will not be opened up. At the bottom there are some pics to depict this method. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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