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hi, I have a question about SOP scalar field vs gas match field in DOP network. When I want to create a custom field, it seems that the both of SOP scalar/vector field node and gas match field node can create a new volume field. The both can be output and saved on SOP level, too. Maybe gasMatchField has less options to set property. Do we have any special situation to use a SOP scalar/vector field node in order to create extra fields?
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Hi, how would you describe difference between lookat() and dihedral() VEX functions? Aren't both used to compute matrix3 to transform vector A onto vector B ?- 1 reply
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I'm writing a SOP node using the HDK for the first time and everything's been pretty cruisy so far, but, I've noticed that when switching collision methods between a volume SDF and a VDB SDF by getting the gradient pushing the points out by the SDF's negative value, the VDB calls are roughly 3-4 times slower than the same calls to a volume. I've optimised the code by forcing a bounds check first which seems to speed things up, (making the assumption that the SDFs are not inverted and only in the edge cases where the SDF bounds only intersect a small portion of the input geo) but still the VDB is substantially slower. Anyone have any trick to speed up these lookups? GU_Detail *sdfInput = new GU_Detail; if (inputGeo(1, context) != NULL) duplicateSource(1, context, sdfInput); ... const GEO_PrimVDB *vdb = NULL; const GEO_PrimVolume *vol = NULL; UT_BoundingBox sdfBBox; sdfBBox.makeInvalid(); if (sdfInput != NULL && doCollision(t)) { for (GA_Iterator it(sdfInput->getPrimitiveRange()); !it.atEnd(); it.advance()) { GEO_Primitive *prim = sdfInput->getGEOPrimitive(it.getOffset()); if(dynamic_cast<const GEO_PrimVDB *>(prim) != NULL) { vdb = dynamic_cast<GEO_PrimVDB *>(prim); vdb->getBBox(&sdfBBox); break; } else if (dynamic_cast<const GEO_PrimVolume *>(prim) != NULL) { vol = dynamic_cast<const GEO_PrimVolume *>(prim); vol->getBBox(&sdfBBox); break; } } } ... UT_Vector3 position; UT_Vector3 gradient; fpreal signDistance; GA_Offset ptOffset; GA_FOR_ALL_PTOFF(gdb, ptOffset) { position = gdb->getPos3(ptOffset); if (!sdfBBox.isInvalid() && sdfBBox.isInside(position)) { if (vdb != NULL) { signDistance = vdb->getValueF(position); if (signDistance < 0) { gradient = vdb->getGradient(position); gdb->setPos3(ptOffset, position - (gradient * signDistance)); } } else if (vol != NULL) { signDistance = vol->getValue(position); if (signDistance < 0) { gradient = vol->getGradient(position); gdb->setPos3(ptOffset, position - (gradient * signDistance)); } } } } If you compile the SOP, plug a vdb sdf into the second input, check the time, then feed the vdb sdf into a vdb convert first and then plug the volume into the 2nd input, you'll notice that the vdb sdf collisions take roughly 3-4 times longer to evaluate than the volume sdf collisions... Ideally I'd like to have the vdb run at least as fast as the volume, and ideally speed up both of them, a lot - as of now a deformer SOP which takes 0.3s to run on 100K points skipping the sdf collisions, takes upwards of 4s with volume collisions enabled, 13s with vdbs...
