Select the outer chunks of voronoi fracture

[dunken]

Hi,

I run a voronoi fracture on a cube mesh and I want to delete the outer chunks and keep the inner ones, I tried to use a blast node and set the Group to "outside" but this only removes the outer faces rather the the the whole chunk,

So is there a way to select the outer chunks of voronoi fracture?

Thank you

[f1480187]

You can modify blast-way to something like this.

remove_outside_pieces.hipnc

[dunken]

That's perfect, I'm new to houdini so I'm still trying to get my head around it, your file is very helpful, thank you!

[drøgö]

On 13/8/2017 at 5:56 PM, f1480187 said:

You can modify blast-way to something like this.

remove_outside_pieces.hipnc

hei @f1480187, nice solution, can u explain to me how it actually works? i mean, are you so kind to try to explain to me the whole foreach loop and what the switch is checking? i cant understand the role of the null obj

thanks,

[Noobini]

well I see @f1480187 last visited the forum months ago...prolly snowed under with work. so i'll try to put a few words together:

in the loop, for each chunk, let's say the chunk has X prims (or faces), it does an overhead step that is delete the outside prim, if there was any outside faces, the prim count would be X - Y. The blast just stays unconnected to anything which may be confusing at first but it's just an overhead step that should be done for each chunk.

Then the switch would inspect each chunk, get the count of faces: nprims(1), ie. using the second input not first.

Then it compares nprims(1)...say is X to the result of blast but remember from above the new count would be X-Y

So X == X- Y is only possible when Y = 0...ie....there is NO outside faces for that chunk.

the result of the test is either 0 or 1 for true or false, which conveniently tells the switch which input to use, the effect is the loop is taking ONLY internal chunks.

(if Y was non zero, then X cannot be equal to the blast count, so the switch is false, ie. the chunk we are processing contains some outside faces....don't take it, use the null instead)

 

[maiden666]

there`s another efficient way (from Entagma) 

1. in Voronoi - turn on Exterior Group "Outside"

2. in Foreach ( on Prims) - create Detail attribute i@del = 0;

3. if prim is in Outside group, then set @del =1 to whole Detail 

4. promote @del from Detail to Prim

5. Blast

 

Edited January 14, 2020 by maiden666

[Noobini]

Ding ding...new challenger....2 nodes after the fracture!!!.

 

 

vu_delOutsideChunks.hiplc

[maiden666]

2 hours ago, Noobini said:

Ding ding...new challenger....2 nodes after the fracture!!!.

 

 

vu_delOutsideChunks.hiplc

Great. Call to Moritz.

[Noobini]

44 minutes ago, maiden666 said:

Great. Call to Moritz.

haha no need...while watching the groupexpand video from Entagma....I thought....heeeeeeeeey.......this might be useful.