How to create a center curve from points

[aoisaki]

I'm watching dragon 2's ice blast system breakdown

 

I got confuse about how to create center curve and custom velocity

 

please help !

 

[mestela]

Here's one way to define a spine curve along a spray of particles that have been hit.

 

-store the hit time as @firsttime

-normalise that, store it as @u

-quantize @u to the amount of points you want along the curve. now there's patches of points that share the same @u

-add prims by attribute @u, now you have little polyline islands that have the same @u value

-promote the average @P to prim, then back down as @Pavg

-set @P as @Pavg, fuse. Now each island has been collapsed to a single point at its average center

-sort these points by @firsttime so they're in order

-add prim, this will make the line

-smooth

 

 

pop_curve_center.hipnc

Edited April 11, 2016 by mestela

[aoisaki]

Here's one way to define a spine curve along a spray of particles that have been hit.

 

-store the hit time as @firsttime

-normalise that, store it as @u

-quantize @u to the amount of points you want along the curve. now there's patches of points that share the same @u

-add prims by attribute @u, now you have little polyline islands that have the same @u value

-promote the average @P to prim, then back down as @Pavg

-set @P as @Pavg, fuse. Now each island has been collapsed to a single point at its average center

-sort these points by @firsttime so they're in order

-add prim, this will make the line

-smooth

 

 

pop_curve_center.hipnc

wow!Thank you very much!

It's perfect!

[aoisaki]

Here's one way to define a spine curve along a spray of particles that have been hit.

 

-store the hit time as @firsttime

-normalise that, store it as @u

-quantize @u to the amount of points you want along the curve. now there's patches of points that share the same @u

-add prims by attribute @u, now you have little polyline islands that have the same @u value

-promote the average @P to prim, then back down as @Pavg

-set @P as @Pavg, fuse. Now each island has been collapsed to a single point at its average center

-sort these points by @firsttime so they're in order

-add prim, this will make the line

-smooth

 

 

pop_curve_center.hipnc

sorry for bothering you again.

 

How can i use this center curve to define the vector like the picture 2.

[argilop]

You can compare the average Position with your current P and then if its "x" or "z" values are greater or smaller go one way or the other.

[mestela]

-set each point normal to {0,1,0}

-get closest point on the curve (a)

-get the next point on the curve (a+1) 

-vector along the curve is b - a

-vector away from the curve for each point is a - @P

-add those vectors to @N, scale to taste

 

would need further refining no doubt, but that's the general idea.

 

pop_curve_center_normal.hipnc

 

Edited April 12, 2016 by mestela

[aoisaki]

-set each point normal to {0,1,0}

-get closest point on the curve (a)

-get the next point on the curve (a+1) 

-vector along the curve is b - a

-vector away from the curve for each point is a - @P

-add those vectors to @N, scale to taste

 

would need further refining no doubt, but that's the general idea.

 

pop_curve_center_normal.hipnc

 

pop_spine_n.gif

wow! thank you very much!

you rock!