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Create a illumination light on a tree in procedural?


Haya8810

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Hi guys, I'm currently finding a way to create an illumination light with cable on a tree in procedural. My personal goal is to make like the pictures that I attached here.

Does anyone have a great idea?  Especially, I would like to figure out how to create the spiral curve along with a tree shape. 

 

Thanks!

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I would look into making a helix out of a curve. If your tree model has a skeleton or curve as a base I would use them otherwise you will have to make the curves manually. I think there are also some forum posts here on making a skeleton out of 3d geometry.

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Hey Haya,

you could shift (and sine wave) the surface distance based on the surface orientation:

vector perp = normalize(cross(v@gradient, v@N));
perp *= dihedral(v@gradient, {0,1,0});
float angle = atan(perp.z, perp.x) / 2.0 + M_PI_2;
f@wave = sin((f@dist + angle * shift) * freq);

image.png.8772b19e743c3b38392f47bb15afffe2.pngimage.png.bbdb09355a0caf084f4db9fc3281e3af.png

tree_lights_simple.hiplc

Edited by konstantin magnus
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