Rotating each item on its own individual axis?

[archz2]

I have a set of items that I copied over a grid of points. Now in order to rotate each of the item on its own individual axis, I used 'For each connected connected piece' but unfortunately, the entire set of geometry rotates on one single axis. How can I do otherwise?

 

PIVOT ROTATE QUESTION.hip

 

[konstantin magnus]

You would usually define the point orientation before copying objects to them. The normal vector "N" pointing to the front and the up vector "up" pointing upwards, eg. perpendicular to the surface. Next you can rotate the up vector around the normals using a point wrangle.

float amount = chf('amount');

matrix3 m = ident();
rotate(m, amount * M_PI, v@N);

v@up *= m;

There are many other ways and as per usual Matt's CG wiki has a good read on this: https://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=JoyOfVex17

rotate_up.hipnc

[archz2]

Thanks a ton. VEX is something that I have learnt the very beginning of (from VEX isn't scary series by NineBetween) and I have to spend more hours in learning and understanding it, and only then your point wrangle will make sense to me. 

Isn't this type of rotation possible by adding some references in the pivot transform or pivot rotate option in the transform node? 

[konstantin magnus]

Handling per object-rotations gets easier after packing and instancing the copies. Eg. the primitive node can do random rotations afterwards.

copies_rotate.hipnc

Edited August 18, 2022 by konstantin magnus

[Librarian]

@archz2 create att rot than wrangle

p@orient = eulertoquaternion(radians(v@rot), XFORM_XYZ);

 

[archz2]

On 8/18/2022 at 10:39 PM, konstantin magnus said:

Handling per object-rotations gets easier after packing and instancing the copies. Eg. the primitive node can do random rotations afterwards.

copies_rotate.hipnc

 

Thanks a lot. That did it. Learnt new things now. 'Primitive properties' node and 'Packing and instancing'. Pasting this for myself. This is quite nice. It references the geometries at every location instead of making copies in order to keep the file performance optimized!

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/copy/packed_and_soups.html

[archz2]

16 hours ago, Librarian said:

@archz2 create att rot than wrangle

p@orient = eulertoquaternion(radians(v@rot), XFORM_XYZ);

 

Where exactly do I have to paste this code? What is 'att rot' ?

[Librarian]

maybe useful @archz2

 

[madebygeoff]

There's a couple good short videos on instance attributes in the documentation for the copy to points sop

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/copytopoints

[archz2]

On 8/21/2022 at 6:16 PM, madebygeoff said:

There's a couple good short videos on instance attributes in the documentation for the copy to points sop

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/copytopoints

Superb! Thanks a lot @madebygeoff! These are immensely helpful!

 

On 8/21/2022 at 2:00 PM, Librarian said:

maybe useful @archz2

 

 

Thank you @Librarian, I'm putting this in my VEX notes to refer later. I didn't quite understand your code magic :). I know very tiny bit of VEX and will be able to understand your file once I learn more of it.