Lines between sets of points

[beeemtee]

Hey,

i would like to connect the points of two sets with the same number of points, with straight lines. i did it with a foreach sop but i'm sure that it is not the easiest and most effective way to do this. it's rather slow..

how would you achieve the same?

thanks

bmt

[Guest Swann]

connectPoints.hipnc

[old school]

No need for the Sort SOP.

Many SOPs that rebuild geometry have two options:

Skip every Nth point

or

Group of N points

Skip every Nth point is used if you want to work on a series of primitives with the same point count and you want to work on the same vertex on each primitive.

Two curves can have their points easily connected by using the Skip every Nth point where the skip number is the total number of points per curve in the Add SOP.

See the hip file for two easy ways to do that.

connectPoints_v02.hipnc

[anim]

or just use Skin SOP with Connectivity set to Columns

connectPoints_v03.hipnc

[beeemtee]

hey,

thanks Swann! that was it. anyway here is a more general solution which doesn't need 'sort' and thus, doesn't depend on position, just on the point numbers.

bmt

connectPoints2.hipnc

[beeemtee]

ohh it seems i came late. so my previous post is redundant. my solution is the same as old_school's.

thanks again!

bmt