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Here is one way to add UVs to those lines. It does not convert to VDB, it uses a sweep to loft the mesh along the line. If you need VDB output, you can do that at the end and use an AttributeInterpolate to transfer the UVs to your final mesh.

This setup drops in an attribute VOP to add a secondary displacement map along the length of each spline. This means mesh displacement is happening prior to render, but you can still add more normal maps or bump maps to the surface when you get to adding materials.

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Thanks a lot for your answers, i will dig the two options you propose tonight.

Konstantin, your solution would work for pure procedural shading, or with triplanar maps, but you could not generate UV out of it right?

Meanwhile i was playing with super simple polar UV projection and got nice results, here is a test render, but it will not do the trick for more detailed image based displacement.

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On 8/19/2019 at 1:52 PM, konstantin magnus said:

Great stuff, Nicolas. This is starting to look Giger-like already!
You don't necessarily need to create UVs in SOPs, though. To project textures on those VDB meshes it's arguably more efficient to do in a shader:

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1) Transform position to world space.   2) Curve IDs shown as random colors.       3) U value from curves in HSV colors.
4) Direction to nearest curve position.   5) Tangents from curves set to absolute.  6) Direction to curve oriented along tangents.
7) V coordinate enclosing each wire.     8) UV coordinates in red and green.            9) UV mapping an image texture.

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10) Texture based displacement along curves or at least what happens when mandrills do the job ; )

The material snippet:


string geo = 'op:/obj/curves/OUT';
P = ptransform('space:current', 'space:world', P);

int prim = -1;
vector uvw = vector(0.0);
float dist = xyzdist(geo, P, prim, uvw);
vector pos = primuv(geo, 'P', prim, uvw);
float u = primuv(geo, 'u', prim, uvw);
vector tangent = primuv(geo, 'tangentu', prim, uvw);
matrix3 rot = dihedral(tangent, {0,1,0});
vector dir = normalize(P - pos);
vector dir_mod = dir * rot;
float v = fit( atan2(dir_mod.z, dir_mod.x), -M_PI, M_PI, 0.0, 1.0 );

P = set(u, v, 0.0);

 

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This is super cool Thanks!!!

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This one is really really cool, probably you will love it @konstantin magnus

artabstract_face_spline.mp4

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On 02/10/2021 at 11:34 AM, konstantin magnus said:

Transferring curl noise curves into volumes along with displacements based on principal curvature is another way to shape organic sculptures.

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sculpture_2.hiplc

We could also advect and grow few frames . I totally forgot the existence of the softpeak , thanks to refresh my memory :)

 

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For UV unwrapping a mesh based on underlying curves1, you can also use this code inside a Point or Vertex Wrangle:

// INPUT 0: MESH
// INPUT 1: CURVES with 'tangentu'-attribute 

int prim_crv;
vector uvw_crv;
float dist = xyzdist(1, v@P, prim_crv, uvw_crv);

vector tangent = primuv(1, 'tangentu', prim_crv, uvw_crv);
matrix3 rot = dihedral(tangent, {0,1,0});
vector pos = primuv(1, 'P', prim_crv, uvw_crv);
vector dir = normalize(pos - v@P) * rot;
float angle = fit11(atan(dir.z, dir.x) / M_PI, 0.0, 1.0);
float perim = primintrinsic(1, 'measuredperimeter', prim_crv);

float u = (angle * 2.0 * M_PI * dist);
float v = uvw_crv[0] * perim;
v@uv = set(u, v, 0.0);

1 https://forums.odforce.net/topic/43213-biological-modelling-methods/?do=findComment&comment=204915

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