convert the shop_materialpath to group

[nilsoncardososa]

Hello
How do I convert the shop_materialpath attribute into groups of primitives

[3dome]

if they follow the same naming convention you can do something like 

group_`strreplace(s@shop_materialpath, "/mat/_Kitbash3d_StreetSide", "")`

for further string manipulation look up the various functions (possibly even doing it in a wrangle, export as attrib and create group from that attrib)

Edited March 19, 2019 by 3dome

[nilsoncardososa]

I could not do what I said. I'm new to houdini, you have to do this process in a .hip file, so it's clearer for me to understand.

[splegare]

You can fill in a base group in a group sop using vex:

@shop_materialpath="/mat/_Kitbash3d_StreetsSideMetalDark"

convert_shop_mat_to_group.hip

[nilsoncardososa]

that worked !
Thanks a lot for the help

[krishna avril]

can we run some sort of code in vex or python to automate this grouping stuff with N no.of materials attrib?

[davidyannick]

7 hours ago, krishna avril said:

can we run some sort of code in vex or python to automate this grouping stuff with N no.of materials attrib?

May be Partition SOP

 

Sorry I didn't see previous answers

Edited December 27, 2021 by davidyannick
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