rony Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 After using Storm for a while and not being able to quickly visualize the volumes in the viewport without a hassle, I've decided to start this project. Basically it's a volumetric modeling plug-in for Houdini. It's still in its infancy right now. The way it works is by converting points with specified attributes and creating a volume representation. Currently only points are supported and not all attributes are actively used. The noise implementation is a pretty simple one for testing purposes. Curves and meshes are on the list for wisps but for now, I'm still building the toolset so it'll be while. I've attached a vid and a hip file with the dll. I've only compiled the windows version for 11.0.658. Cheers, Ron volume_plugin_and_hipfile.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 neat! looking forward to more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisux Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Mmmm this sound promising Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rony Posted June 2, 2011 Author Share Posted June 2, 2011 Thanks for the replies. I'm currently redesigning the library so that it's generic enough for CUDA implementation. Sometimes I wish I had more time off for my personal projects... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_K Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Looks most promising indeed! Please keep us updated as to your progress. Matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisux Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Sometimes I wish I had more time off for my personal projects... Welcome to the club of personal projects Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigal123 Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Good stuff! are you still in Van, if so lets do lunch next week. Pablo, you shouldn't have time to type in this forum at all one more week right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netvudu Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I´m gonna keep an eye on this. Looks very interesting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rony Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 Good stuff! are you still in Van, if so lets do lunch next week. Pablo, you shouldn't have time to type in this forum at all one more week right? Sure thing Georg. I'll be in Vancouver till the end of June. Cheers, Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisux Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Pablo, you shouldn't have time to type in this forum at all one more week right? Yep, one deathly week You lucky man! Hope everything is going alkl right in Vancouver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rony Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 update. I've implemented a Perlin Noise and added it. Also did a few optimizations. Here are a few tests and files to play with. volume_from_attrib_v02.zip volume_2.mov volume_3.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rony Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 (edited) I couldn't help not to try this with an already existing setup so I used the file from this thread here's the result: volume_4.mov Edited August 17, 2011 by rony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rony Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 I haven't had enough time to do drastic additions to this but I did add color attribute support so you can color the volume with point color now. volume_from_attrib_v03.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rony Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 (edited) So it's been a while and I apologize for making people wait but the plugin has matured slowly due to a very busy production schedule. I've still managed to add quite a few features and split the whole thing into a volume modeling suite comprised of the following plugins: fillWithClouds: uses points to instance volume clouds. fillWithWisps: uses points to instance children points of the original points. fillWithSurfaceWisps: uses quad meshes to instance children points on the surface. fillWithCurves: uses input curves to fill the volume. These are all using a custom Perlin noise with roughness set to 0.5 and no more than 4 octaves. These are still in beta but I've made a compilation video showing them all. Enjoy. PS: I used ffmpeg so some images are stretched because they were flipbooked at different resolutions. Cheers, Ron volume_tests.avi Edited April 24, 2012 by rony 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_K Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Nice! I look forward to seeing more. Matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freaq Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 great stuff look forward to testing when I get home!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nieming Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 cool job! Amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rony Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 Thanks for the comments. Here's 2 additions to the plugins: fillWithCurves which uses a curve primitive with Normals and an up vector and generates a volume. The tornado is basically static curves with noise offset. and fillWithWisps which scatters points around every input point. These are the first tests with some new tests of the other plugins: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netvudu Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 (edited) that looks pretty useful!Will you release it? Edited May 3, 2012 by Netvudu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rony Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share Posted May 17, 2012 that looks pretty useful!Will you release it? It's on my website for Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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