Zabander Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Hi, I'm a beginer in the path of the force (Houdini) and I'm trying to be able to copy an object based on the distance and between of two other objects, just as the new modifier created by Elara Systems using the new 3ds max MCG. I know it can be done with a spline and a copy sop easyly and get similar results, but I wanted to test if it is posible in Houdini, I know it is Any idea will be welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockstad Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 I know it can be done with a spline and a copy sop easyly and get similar results Indeed! Draw out a curve with two points, then feed it to a Resample node - here you should tick the Maximum Segments and Create Only Points boxes. Plug this in as the template to a Copy SOP with whatever geometry you want to copy, and adjust the number of segments to get more or less copies. At this point you can drop in an Edit SOP between the curve and Resample and animate however you like. Seems to match the Elara video pretty nicely - is this what you're after? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zabander Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 Thanks! jrockstad, But I was lookking a way to do it without an spline, just by distance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 can you post a link to this modifier... you could use the Duplicate SOP...and drive it with a measured distance between two objects... but it would be good to see what this modifier does... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zabander Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) Sure: http://www.elarasystems.com/insights/case-studies/elara-labs/ The second one, named: Create a modifier that clones geometry between 2 nodes Michael, that's what I'm talking about, how do you drive it with the measured distance between two points? Edited April 20, 2015 by Zabander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 ah...no, you don't want to do this.... just build a curve between the two points and use the copy SOP you'll get EXACTLY the same thing - plus all the additional advantages of the copy SOP (stamping etc) in this case there isn't any point in recreating the copy SOP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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