(Animated) dashed line?

[Krion]

Hi!

I was looking for ways to make a dashed line (between two objects).

This video didn't exist anymore.

https://lesterbanks.com/2012/01/creating-dashed-lines-in-sidefx-houdini/

Do you guys know any tutorial or do you have any suggestions?

Thank you.  

Edited March 14, 2019 by DévinOdforce

[Skybar]

Create a line, resample it and delete every second segment?

[Krion]

On 3/14/2019 at 5:12 PM, Skybar said:

Create a line, resample it and delete every second segment?

How would you do that? I can't make a Group Range for edges. 

How would you delete points with leaving a gap? Or maybe I can do this directly in the Delete SOP? 

Edited March 17, 2019 by DévinOdforce

[Aizatulin]

Hi,

using the carve node combined with a foreach is another option.

dotted_line.hipnc

[konstantin magnus]

Let a sine wave run across your curves, set the dash length with frequency, animate by adding time and define the gap size by comparing the value with a custom threshold.

float u = vertexprimindex(0, @vtxnum) / float(primvertexcount(0, @primnum));
float u_length = u * primintrinsic(0, 'measuredperimeter', @primnum);
float u_anim = (u_length + @Time * chf('speed'));

int waves = sin(u_anim * M_PI * chf('frequency')) < chf('gaps');
v@Cd = hsvtorgb( set(u, 1.0, 1.0) ) * waves;

If you want your dashed line to be static just replace u_anim inside the sin() function by u_length.

dashed_curves.hiplc

Edited March 17, 2019 by konstantin magnus
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[Krion]

Great stuff! Reminds me i should pick up learning VEX again.. 

11 hours ago, konstantin magnus said:

Let a sine wave run across your curves

Is it possible to change this hip file or technique to be able to handle a (dashed) polywire afterwards?

Edited March 18, 2019 by DévinOdforce

[mestela]

add sop, check 'delete geometry but keep points' to get back to just points, then on the polygons tab chose 'by group', add mode 'groups of N points'.

dashed_line.hip

[konstantin magnus]

On 18.3.2019 at 10:19 AM, DévinOdforce said:

Is it possible to change this hip file or technique to be able to handle a (dashed) polywire afterwards?

Yes, you could take the convertline SOP, promote the wave attribute to primitives and delete by this attribute.

@DévinOdforce: I attached an example.

dashed_curves_prims.hiplc

Edited March 19, 2019 by konstantin magnus