alembic Stick points on an animated alembic

[Yundaz]

Hi there,

I'm trying to stick points on an animated alembic without the points moving all over the place.

At the moment I've got my alembic attached to a vdbfrompolygons to scatter.

How can I make sure that these points will follow the alembic geometry? (the polycount doesn't change while animating)

 

Thank you for your time and help.

(I've attached an alembic file)

AlembicTestFile.abc

[3dome]

one method:

1) timeshift your geo to any static frame

2) scatter points, in the OutputAttribs tab turn on the first 2 options

3) put down Attribute Interpolate and put your points in first input, deforming geo into second input

 

[Yundaz]

5 hours ago, 3dome said:

one method:

1) timeshift your geo to any static frame

2) scatter points, in the OutputAttribs tab turn on the first 2 options

3) put down Attribute Interpolate and put your points in first input, deforming geo into second input

 

Hi 3dome, Thanks for your help.

I went and tried this out but I'm only getting one point that seems to move with this result.

I've attached a zip with the Alembic I use and the hip file with your solution.

Fixedscatter_01.zip

[Sepu]

use the point deform when scatter with volumes, also u need to unpack your geo

fixedscatter.hipnc

Edited May 14, 2018 by Sepu

[Yundaz]

6 hours ago, Sepu said:

use the point deform when scatter with volumes, also u need to unpack your geo

fixedscatter.hipnc

Thank alot Sepu,

Based on a few options I've come across another option by using an attributeVop and calculating the xyz dist.

The point data seems to animate a bit smoother this way.

FixedScatter.zip

[kevidahevi]

You could run this snippet in a wrangle:

 

int posprim;
vector param_uv;
float maxdist = chf("maxdist");
float dist = xyzdist(1,@P,posprim,param_uv,maxdist);
vector pos1 = primuv(1, "P",posprim,param_uv);
vector pos2 = primuv(2, "P",posprim,param_uv);

@P = pos2+(@P-pos1);
 

The scatted points in the firstinput

Rest Geo in the 2nd

And deforming geo in the 3rd

Edited May 29, 2018 by kevidahevi