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set the sleep time to 0, it disables that 'feature'.

I pared the scene right back and rebuilt it using stuff I learned at the start of the year, its behaving as expected now I think. constrain_to_animated_anchors_matts_soft_rotation.hipnc

Rich Lord has you covered, browse around his amazing blog for a while: http://richardlord.tumblr.com/ I wrote a few notes that might be useful too: http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=ConstraintNetworks2

not sure if this is how Saber is doing it, but sort of works. saber_style_column.hip

Hey, was playing with this the other day, and like you found the old trick broke in h17. I did a quick workaround for the problem, but your post reminded me to have a closer look. As always, there's probably a neater way, but this seems to work pretty well and is relatively speedy. The idea is to use a cluster points sop as before, and in the new voronoi fracture make sure it transfers @cluster to the prims. You can then do a for loop over the prims, using @cluster as the name, and do whatever you wanna do. In my case I just run a fuse, and with the planar case also remove interior faces and excess inline points. Afterwards you can run a polyextrude or whatever, it should behave as expected. voronoi_cluster_h17.hip

An attempt here (and older attemps a few posts earlier) http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=HoudiniDops#Pyro_and_colour_yet_again Or just wait for H17 in a few days, where its built in. (edit) Oh, for rendering just bind Cd to your material: For extra control put a colour correct in the middle, and/or connect cd to the emitcolor for different effects:

Here's something that might get you started. nut_pile.hipnc Uses ideas explained on these pages: http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=HoudiniDops#RBD_deintersect_the_easy_way http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=ForLoops#De-intersect_a_scatter_with_heavy_geometry

cool! what was the render time on that? feels like the curves are a little soft ,wonder if that could be sharpened.... thinner curves, more width noise variation maybe?

Also this:

Revisited this to try and get the render better in mantra, this'll do. curl_lines_render.hip

https://forums.odforce.net/topic/27126-curly-abstract-geometry/?tab=comments#comment-156050

On my machine I can r.click an app and choose 'run with graphics processor' and choose either the battery sipping intel gpu, or the fancy nvidia processor. Not sure if that's a max-q specific feature, or common to all laptops that have a choice of nvidia gpu or integrated graphics.

No, its a frequent source of annoyance when working with ramps.

Aha! Its mentioned at 1hr39mins, the zip linked in the vimeo description contains the example wrangle that will read a texture and push it back to point animation. Its living in /obj/geometry_attributes/cloth/pointwrangle1 T

Lyndon mentioned he had exactly this in one of his videos, lemme try and dig up the link...