This is fantastic! Thank you so much for such a detailed tutorial Konstantin!

OMG your channel is like, magic. I can understand every step and I can flow.Thank you!

awesome! Thank you for making such a brilliant and succinct tutorial.

Excellent tut , thank you for sharing the knowledge.

Amazing. Thank you so much for this video. Really made a lot of things click for me.

Fantastic tut. I've been knee-deep in Find Shortest Path stuff for the last week and this was a fresh new approach that has taught me a lot!

@KonstantinMagnus

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, there is still probably a lot more to discover with this node.

This is amazing, thank you for the tutorial!

Outstanding tutorial, Thank you sir!

Man, I learned so much from this video. Awesome stuff.

@KonstantinMagnus

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Chris! You might also enjoy the more boring looking stuff on my channel then.

Brilliant tutorial mate

super good tutorial! Thanks for this!

Awesome tutorial, thanks for sharing!!

Golden information!! Thanks!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing it.

Wow, great tutorial and amazing look it gives! : )

thank you for the amazing tutorial, if you put resample before fuse and polypath you will have the original curveu and you don't need to bypass polypath.

Not what I was looking for, but watched the whole thing anyway cos it was so cool XD

Kick ass tutorial. Thanks :)

Impressive, thank you

awesome, subscribed!

Thank you for the lesson! It was cool)

Good job!

Amazing

Thanks

very nice

labs polyreduce node is great if you just want to do just that instead of the remesh node!

Спасибо!

@KonstantinMagnus

2 жыл бұрын

не́ за что!

This was amazing, thank you very much for this. One question I would ask about Shortest Path is how can you animate the individual branch structures to move like branches or tentacles?

@KonstantinMagnus

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Miles, you could look into Vellum hair simulations or KineFX for that.

it´s easy to animate with the carve node

why do I get a dotted line when I try to connect the 'Line' to the 'Distance from geometry' node?

Interesting script! Beginner here, how can I show it growing? As I click on the play button down below on houdini it seems static. What should I do ?

Having an issue with groupexpression node. Using houdini 19. Getting an error when entering: rand(@elemnum), chi('rand')) Error Invalid source /obj/testgeometry_templatehead1/groupexpression1/attribvop1 Error: Error in VOP 'snippet1'. Warning: Errors or warnings encountered during VEX compile: /obj/testgeometry_templatehead1/groupexpression1/attribvop1/snippet1: Syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ';'. (2,44). Error: Vex error: Unable to load shader 'op:/obj/testgeometry_templatehead1/groupexpression1/attribvop1'. Thanks for any help.

@KonstantinMagnus

2 жыл бұрын

Mind the bracketing: rand(@elemnum, chi('seed')) < 0.3

Is this node using all threads? It's a bit slow for more complex problems. This should run on the gpu ideally. Do you think that is possible?

@KonstantinMagnus

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Philip, it seems possible in OpenCL. In many cases I'd rather optimize the mesh or network in advance, though.

Thanks for the tutorial! I have an issue though. When I use the Group Expression and enter v@P.y

@KonstantinMagnus

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ashly, make sure to type the number one instead of the letter "I". It's 1e-2 You can also just enter: 0.01

@IbycusCrane

2 жыл бұрын

@@KonstantinMagnus Thanks you!

@IbycusCrane

2 жыл бұрын

@@KonstantinMagnus soooo, that seems to do the trick but I have two other weird issues, haha. First, when I add the tet embed node I can no longer see the wireframe of my mesh and second, when I add the find shortest path node I can not see the names of the group expression in the drop down. Any ideas why? Thanks!

Hey Konstantin! great video! I have a question regarding meshing - I want to have the animation grow from the start to the end points, and ideally I would like to do this with a carve node after the fused lines, but this is where I run into a problem. I want to avoid using the VDB meshing setup you showed in the video because I want the paths to move and don't want to deal with a constantly changing prim count, so I am left with either the sweep node or polywire (maybe there is another node?). The problem is when I use the carve with a polypath and sweep node for example, the animation does not start at the root group, but rather, the start of the line. If I disable the polypath, the setup optically looks correct, but the sweep node stacks a ton of geometry on top of each other, and I want to avoid this as well. Esentially, how can I have an animated mesh that grows along the lines? Sorry for the long comment, I hope I am making sense :) Thanks again for the great video!

@KonstantinMagnus

Жыл бұрын

Hi Kyle, I would probably create the entire mesh, add a surface distance attribute starting from the root and reveal the mesh along the distance. That way you have consistent primitive numbers and a consistent topology.

@kkeerr

Жыл бұрын

@@KonstantinMagnus gotcha, how would I get the surface distance attribute to actually effect the scale of the mesh? Is there a SOP node? Or am I just tweaking P values in a wrangle? Thank you for the help on this by the way, I really appreciate it :)

@KonstantinMagnus

Жыл бұрын

@@kkeerr I don't think there is a SOP node for that. This probably needs a custom procedure.

@kkeerr

Жыл бұрын

@@KonstantinMagnus gotcha, thank you for the help!

Okay this took me a while, but: Are you a fan of the band Gojira by any chance? :D

@KonstantinMagnus

Жыл бұрын

Hi! No this is coincidence, in Houdini I just have very little models to choose from.

@ironscavenger

Жыл бұрын

@@KonstantinMagnus alright :D Because it strongly resembles an album cover (L'enfant sauvage).

@KonstantinMagnus

Жыл бұрын

@@ironscavenger Yes, I figured that by searching images. Btw. I love your mechanic videos!

@ironscavenger

Жыл бұрын

@@KonstantinMagnus thank you! :)

awesome tutorial !! Thank you so much!

Great tutorial, thank you!