Point groups

[Macha]

Does anybody know how to loop over points and get the pointgroup each point belongs to?

[Hudson]

Hey Macha,

 

Can't provide the hip atm but try this:

 

1- pipe your points into a VOPSOP, 

2- create a for/while loop inside the vopsop that iterates as many times as the number of point groups  (using the pointgrouplist() ).
2- Inside the while or for loop you can use an ingroup-VOP and check if the point belongs to the specified group being iterated.

 

You can then apply those to an array and convert to a list of strings or whatever you want

I will take a look at this solution. But it should work

 

Cheers,

Huds

[Macha]

Hey, thanks but I wanted to do this with the HDK.

 

So far, this is my attempt, but I think it just gives me all the groups, and how many are in each group but now what?

    const GA_ElementGroupTable & grpTable = gdp->getElementGroupTable(GA_ATTRIB_POINT);

    for (GA_GroupTable::iterator<GA_ElementGroup> it=grpTable.beginTraverse(); !it.atEnd(); ++it)
    {
        GA_PointGroup *group = static_cast<GA_PointGroup*>( it.group() );
        cout << "groups?" << group->entries() << endl;
    }

Edited February 13, 2014 by Macha

[Hudson]

Oh you want to do it in HDK. Then I can't help you sir. Still noobing around with vex, hehe.

 

But if it helps, the vex code to check if the point belongs to a group is: ingroup( "group" , ptnum );

 

If you find out how to write that vex-function in HDK then you are settlet I think. If the case is that your loop goes through all point groups.

 

Man I feel ashamed I haven't written anything in HDK  .

 

Anyhow I hope someone else will show you the missing piece.

 

GL Macha!

[graham]

There isn't a direct mapping between a point and it's group since the points can definitely be in 0 or more groups.  You'd probably just want to iterate over every point and for each point iterate over all the point groups and see which, if any, the point belongs too.

[Macha]

Would this be OK? It seems to work.

void inGroup(const GU_Detail *gdp)
{
    using namespace std;

    GA_PointGroup*  grp;

    GA_FOR_ALL_POINTGROUPS(gdp, grp){
        
        GA_Offset  ptOff;
        GA_FOR_ALL_PTOFF(gdp, ptOff){

            if (grp->containsOffset(ptOff)){
                cout << "Point[" <<ptOff<<"] in group: " << grp->getName() << endl;
            }
          
        }
      
    }

}

[Macha]

I've actually got a really annoying problem with inlinecpp. 

 

Very often I get a compile error:

GeometryPermissionError: Geometry is read-only.
You cannot pass a read-only hou.Geometry object to a function expecting a non-const GU_Detail *

But the code all looks fine. I then have to exit Houdini, close the shell, reopen, restart and the whole thing works again.

 

Has anybody experienced this?

[graham]

Don't think I've seen that one before.  Assuming the function is the same as the previous post (with a const GU_Detail  *) I don't see why Houdini would ever complain about with that error.  Are you on Windows by chance?  I seem to recall inlinecpp being more difficult there.