loudsubs 44 Posted February 25, 2015 I'm trying to get the constraint network dop to work with a wire object. According to the H14 documentation, it is now supported for wires. Here's my attempt. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thank you. 14.0.201.13 wire_constraint.hip 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kev2 36 Posted February 25, 2015 What are you trying to achieve? You've cut and pinned a wire at the ends. Did you intend to pin it in the middle? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loudsubs 44 Posted February 25, 2015 Yes, I want to pin it in the middle, and then eventually delete that constraint with a sop solver. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kev2 36 Posted February 25, 2015 Got it. Well the quick solution is to move your group1 to after the polycut with pattern = 5 $N. I didn't add in the SOP solver to delete the constraint but that should be easy enough. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loudsubs 44 Posted February 25, 2015 Yeah, this is more of an exercise to learn how to use the constraint network to have control over wire objects. Think of a much larger scale wire object, that represents the pillars of a massive bridge or something. Being able to control exactly when and where the wire constraints break is the kind of thing I would use this for. Ideally I want to be able to create and and control constraints for wires the same way I would for a bullet rbd simulation Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sergio 8 Posted February 26, 2015 Yeah, this is more of an exercise to learn how to use the constraint network to have control over wire objects. Think of a much larger scale wire object, that represents the pillars of a massive bridge or something. Being able to control exactly when and where the wire constraints break is the kind of thing I would use this for. Ideally I want to be able to create and and control constraints for wires the same way I would for a bullet rbd simulation Hi Arrev, Peter Quint has exactly the same setup in his new video. You may wanna check his work out. here is the link https://vimeo.com/118982609 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loudsubs 44 Posted February 26, 2015 Cool, thanks for the tip! I'll definitely check that video out Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loudsubs 44 Posted March 1, 2015 After a little RnD, learned some cool stuff. For anyone interested, here's a little example for working with procedural wire constraints in H14. wire_constraint4.hipnc 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tielax11 1 Posted April 2, 2015 I tried to do that tutorial in Houdini 13 and it doesn't work, I have no idea why. Can anyone go through this really quickly and see what I am doing wrong? I have everything set up, all I want to do is to constrain the two wires together. I am using Houdini 13 for this scene file and would like to keep using 13. Bridge.hiplc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cwhite 62 Posted April 3, 2015 The wire solver only added support for constraint networks in H14 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tielax11 1 Posted April 3, 2015 (edited) The wire solver only added support for constraint networks in H14 Thanks for the update. Have you seen this anywhere in the documentation? Also, is there an alternate method for constraining one wire object to another wire object? Edited April 3, 2015 by tielax11 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
