@name attribute without assembly ?

[CinnamonMetal 21]

The Pack SOP doesn't create a @name attribute; how can it be created otherwise without using the assembly SOP ?

[ThomasPara 114]

You can use whatever to set your name attribute as long as its a primitve attribute.

ex:

put down a connectivity and use the @class attribute.

s@name = "piece"+itoa(i@class);

or you could use the primitive number itself

s@name = "packed_prim"+itoa(@primnum);

or closest point to this primitive

int nearpt = nearpoint(1,@P);
s@name = "say_my_name"+itoa(nearpt);

or get the name of the closest point

int nearpt = nearpoint(1,@P);
s@name = point(1,"name",nearpt);

Its just an attribute you can call whatever and name whatever. If several primitives have the same attribute with the same value, they get packed togheter.

[CinnamonMetal 21]

The pack sop shows the name attribute but immediately following is the connect adjacent pieces sop and that shows 0 ?

Edited July 1, 2018 by CinnamonMetal

[ThomasPara 114]

In the "attribute transfer", set it to name. After that insert an attribute promote, where you promote your name attribute from primitive to point. Now your connect adjacent pieces will have the name attribute.

connect_adjacent_01.hiplc

Edited July 1, 2018 by ThomasPara
example file

[CinnamonMetal 21]

The connectivity sop is set to point as the attribute class; why use an attribute transfer to convert it to point when it's already a point attribute ?  

Sorry if I'm not understanding something  

[ThomasPara 114]

I was tierd when i wrote that post, but its all in the file.