H16 Solidify

[Noobini]

I'm on H 16.0.557 Apprentice...cannot find the Solidify node...anyone else got it, in a later version ?

No particular reason, just studying Jeff Wagner's video and foolin' around...

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/solidify

[galagast]

Hmm after some digging through, I checked if the operator can be added using the opadd function in the texport.
As it turns out, the operator is still there (it even has a version 2!).

So next, I checked the OPcustomize file (located in your $HFS/houdini folder) where I found the it was intentionally hidden, and it comes with this note:

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// For H16.0, the functionality of solidify has been replaced in favour of
// polyfill + boolean combo. Thus solidify 2.0 was made to expose only that
// functionality hole filing functionality of solidify that hasn't been yet
// replaced, however it is not currently used anywhere by us and we don't want
// to encourage others to use it. We do want to hide the old solidify from the
// users
ophide Sop solidify::2.0
ophide Sop solidify

 

If you still want to play around with the old solidify node, open up an Hscript Texport.
Then first go to your sop directory like so (assuming you have an existing geo1 object):

/ -> cd obj/geo1

Now, type this to create the solidify node:

/obj/geo1 -> opadd solidify

But notice that it would create the newer version of solidify (MMB on the node, to check the type and see solidify::2.0 under the name).
So type this instead to specifically use the old solidify:

/obj/geo1 -> opadd -e solidify

I hope this helps!

[Noobini]

thanks...but strange that this doesn't mention anything about tet....ie. from the help link, I read it as a more advanced version of Tet SOP...

FYI, in the video, @ 00:11:40 shows new SOPs...why would they now hide it...

https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/geometry-workflows/

EDIT: Maybe Solid Conform ? the Solidify sample file uses solidconform...(this is more on the Tet train of thoughts than the Polyfill school)

Edited May 3, 2017 by Noobini

[galagast]

You're welcome Vu

In my understanding, as mentioned in the docs:

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Solidify is designed to aid the artist in tetrahedralizing a surface mesh using the Tetrahedralize SOP.

It is to aid - or help - the Tetrahedralize SOP. Because the Tet SOP needs a closed mesh.

Here's a portion from the Tetrahedralize SOP docs:

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This operator is a low level tool that creates tetrahedralizations from closed and self-intersection free inputs.

The Solidy will close the mesh (which the PolyFill now does) which then aids the Tetrahedralize SOP to work more correctly.

Edited May 3, 2017 by galagast