ramp from HOM

[freaq]

trying to control a randomness by a ramp parameter

 

so an artist can control what spawns more often and less

my idea is to take the curve, integrate it (or via numpy .cumsum())

and then index that value. 

 

but apparantly this is not so easy in houdini,

some pointers anyone?

 

 

 

ps: also weird:

when storing a ramp as a variable the ramp cannot be adressed:

 

this works:

hou.parm('/obj/lot1/distribution2').eval().lookup(0.7)

 

this does not:

dist = hou.parm('/obj/lot1/distribution2').eval()

dist.lookup(0.3)

 

which makes it very inconveniant to do things like integrate etc.

very nasty

 

[anim]

not really sure what exactly you are doing and if you really need to integrate the samples as that is usually not necessary for common ramp defined distribution control, but

dist = hou.parm('/obj/lot1/distribution2').eval()

dist.lookup(0.3)

works for me, you can as well try .evalAsRamp() if that makes any difference

 

here is the full integration example, seems to work fine

import numpy
parm = hou.parm('/obj/lot1/distribution2')
ramp = parm.evalAsRamp() # even though parm.eval() works as well


nsamples = 10
samples = [ramp.lookup(s/(nsamples-1.0)) for s in range(nsamples)]
integratedsamples = list(numpy.cumsum(samples))


print "ramp raw samples  : %s" %samples
print "integrated samples: %s" %integratedsamples

Edited June 7, 2015 by anim