Geometry Solver Copy Stamping not working?

[danylyon]

Hi guys

I made an ant which moves their legs with some Geometry Solver magic.

Now I want to copy stamp several ants to points.

But it seems like the Solver node doesn't do correct copy stamping.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, still quite new to Houdini.

I made a very simple file to demonstrate it.

If this is a known limitation?.. any idea how to achieve something like that?

solver_copy.hip

[tjeeds]

Hmm, I don't think this works like that. Stamping after the solver should be fine, but certain sop trickery doesn't function when you use the Solver/ForEach nodes. What sort of magic are we talking here?

[sadhu]

Do you just want to animate series of boxes in z direction ?

Remove stamping from box2 and revert that para to default. and in translate z para of copy2 sop write 1. Its cumulative transformation. You will get series of boxes in z direction. You can animate this with transform sop ($F*0.05 in translate z para of transform sop)

or if you have to use solver sop and stamping -

connect transform sop after solver1 and use stamp("../copy1","nr",0) expression in translate x para of transform sop.

Edited March 8, 2013 by sadhu

[danylyon]

Hi guys.. thanks for looking into it.

Well I don't want to stamp just the output of the solver. I want to stamp the input (so it calculates differently with each input).

I guess it's a bit too ambitious to stamp a dynamic network with different values. Probably never meant to work. I will just Wedge them through and copy stamp the file read.