oscarc Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 Hello this is my first post in this site, hope I can find some smart brains in here to help me out. I'm trying to come up with a tool in Houdini, best way to describe is by seeing this Blender addon video. I want to speed up arquitectural modeling, the goal is to be able to input "trims" of a building, probably as a long polyloop, and be able to "extrude" a trim profile along the length of this polyloop. Ideally it will also turn when the input polyloop turns , like around right angles. If the polyloop has varying thickness, then the extruded profile would follow this as well. wonder if I can copy the profile on each vertical edge of the loop, then bridge each copy or something like that. But I feel like I am overcomplicating this and there is a simpler way ? Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarc Posted September 21 Author Share Posted September 21 been able to get it this far which is exciting! Its pretty janky though. Not sure how reliable it would be yet but its something.... ideally I can find a way for it to work on corners too! trimsTest.hipnc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarc Posted September 22 Author Share Posted September 22 I'm getting stuck in figuring out how to sort a direction of my poly loop. Of course if you were to just draw a line with the Curve sop it would solve this. But I want to be able to input any poly loop and have the tool figure out the direction based on the length of the poly loop.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarc Posted Friday at 02:54 AM Author Share Posted Friday at 02:54 AM Does it normally take a week + for a new post to be approved by moderators? Are they on vacation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenolis Posted Friday at 08:53 AM Share Posted Friday at 08:53 AM Labs Edge Group to Curve > Orientation Along Curve > Sweep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenolis Posted Friday at 08:55 AM Share Posted Friday at 08:55 AM Feel free to join the Think Procedural Discord server to ask similar questions in the geometry_sops channel, members are fairly active there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarc Posted 20 hours ago Author Share Posted 20 hours ago On 10/4/2024 at 1:55 AM, Fenolis said: Feel free to join the Think Procedural Discord server to ask similar questions in the geometry_sops channel, members are fairly active there. Thanks for the tip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarc Posted 20 hours ago Author Share Posted 20 hours ago On 10/3/2024 at 7:54 PM, oscarc said: Does it normally take a week + for a new post to be approved by moderators? Are they on vacation? That's a useful node! I ended up sitting this via the add node but the point orientation was not correct and didn't give me a straight line. Since I want the poly loop input to have a random point order, I ended up organizing the points by doing a Uv flatten, gridify uvs , morph uvs to 3d space via vops, then point sort by X and Z lol So an overcomplicated solution but felt gratifying coming up with it. This node should simplify it quite a bit ! I wish Houdini had a better way to search for useful nodes ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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