Font Sop with Polyextrude - Generates Bad Mesh (Ngons)

[schiho]

Hi guys,

 

i am creating a "Font Sop" then i am using the "Polyextrude Sop", but as you can see, the mesh isn't quite clean, as the sop produces big ngons.

 

 

In Softimage, there is the "text to curve converter" which produces a better tesellated mesh. Is there a way to do that in houdini?

 

 

Thanks

Edited February 24, 2014 by schiho

[mangi]

Yafes,

are you just looking for more detail in the text node ?

 

Then :

boost the detail value up some.

 

mangi

[schiho]

Hi Mike, 

 

nope, you can see the big face on the number "2", there is no tesellation, this is problematical when i export geo to maya. 

[mangi]

Okay Yafes

I was not 100 % sure what you are trying to achieve.

[mangi]

Yafes

from your snap shot, I fabricated this .

Let me export a obj and see if it works for your export into MAYA

 

Cheers

 

Mangi

text.rar

Edited February 24, 2014 by mangi

[jkunz07]

I tried a remesh sop and had success using it on the 2D Text,  this might be an option if you need only triangles.

[schiho]

Sorry for my late reply,

 

@kunz07 this worked well.

 

@mike maybe you can give me a hip file? I can load it, the problem is, while importing alembics, "some" ngons are blasted away, which is an undefined behaviour.

[mangi]

Sure Yafes

 

here is the scene

 

mangi

Y.hipnc