Voronoi to grain soft body

[pitapan 0]

Hello

 

I am trying to make a voronoi fractured object into grain soft body.

 

I split the object with voronoi fracure, and use for loop to create grains for each piece. On the dop level all looks great - all voronoi pieces are separate and bounce around the way I wished. The problem is when simulated mesh is read back and fed into point deform sop. The original mesh is not acting as separate objects. Is there an easy to correct this?

 

Also, is there a way to create a glue constrain for grain sims?

 

 

voronoi soft body.hiplc

[pitapan 0]

Progress:

I made class attribite for each piece with connectivity.

The point deform is now inside for each subnet. Incoming rest lattice and deformed lattice (driven by grain sim) are stripped down to piece corresponding to loops run.

Inside loop deform works good but the for each subnet fails to cook giving invalid source error. Any ideas?

voronoi soft body2.hiplc

Edited January 14, 2016 by pitapan

[esteban_diacono 0]

Hello. I'm trying the same thing. Did you ever manage to pull this off? Thanks!

[Gavin 17]

A simple tweak cleared this one up. The groups being used for the foreach are point groups not primitive group. I dropped in a connectivity node and made a primitive attribute to iterate over instead and it works fine.

voronoi soft body3.hiplc

[esteban_diacono 0]

Thanks for the great file! I'm still having trouble making my mesh deform correctly, but the file is fantastic for learning! Thanks again.

[anthonymcgrath 71]

Check out farmfield on vimeo he's also on here too. He did a scene some time ago with a hip file that does pretty much the same kind of trick. Very clever!

[esteban_diacono 0]

Hello again. Using Gavin's file I was able to create the effect I was after, but I'm curious about one thing: As soon as I change the number of points in the Scatter node, the For Each starts behaving in a very strange way, mismatching the pieces, and obviously, affecting and messing up the whole thing. Is there a relationship between the number of pieces and other parameter that I'm missing?

Thanks!

[Farmfield 325]

On 1/30/2017 at 7:57 PM, anthonymcgrath said:

Check out farmfield on vimeo he's also on here too. He did a scene some time ago with a hip file that does pretty much the same kind of trick. Very clever!

I think I might have Houdini-induced Alzheimer's, I really don't remember how I set that up.  (this one)

But I'll take a look at the setup posted here and see what I can make of it. I spent a shitload of time working with grains recently, so hopefully I'll have at least a clue what the hell I'm doing.