Houdini 17.0 Nodes Geometry nodes

Group geometry node

Generates groups of points, primitives, or edges according to various criteria.

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Overview

Elements can occur in more than one group. Groups are used in many parts of the Parameter Editor to specify which portions of input geometry you wish an operator to act upon.

You can also create ordered groups. To do so, enable the Ordered checkbox.

This operator is very powerful and is ideal for combining geometry that is similar. For example, all the primitive geometry of a group of door structures for a three-dimensional architectural model could be grouped together and consequently scaled and re-sized together using a Transform node. Works in conjunction with most filter nodes.

Group name specifiers become very powerful when you use pattern matching in your group specifiers.

Using Group Geometry

  1. Select the points, primitives, edges, or vertices you want to group.

  2. Click the Group Geometry tool on the Model tab of the shelf.

  3. Enter a Group Name in the operation controls toolbar or the parameter editor.

Tip

When using the hotkeys to select edges to group, press ⇥ Tab once the selection is complete (instead of Enter), and select the Group Geometry operation in the tab menu.

Creating groups based on point attributes

You can create groups based on point/primitive attributes using the Combine tab and group specification syntax.

For example, to create a group containing all points with Y position greater than 0:

  1. In the parameter editor for the Group node, click the Combine tab.

  2. In the Group field (below Combine entity), set the left side to the name of the group you want to create, click the equal button in the middle, and set the right side to @P.y>0

In this example, P is the name of the position vector attribute, .y takes the Y component of the vector, and >0 selects points where the component is greater than 0. See the @ group specification syntax for more information. Note that the @ syntax does not allow spaces.

Inputs

Source geometry

The geometry on which to create the groups.

Bounding object

Bounding geometry. (Only works for point groups when selecting by bounding geometry.)

Accepts all geometry.

Parameters

Create

Group Name

The name of the group to create.

Entity

Whether to create a primitive or point group.

Geometry Type

What sort of primitives to allow in the group.

Merge Operation

How to resolve collisions between the newly created group with an already existing group.

Replace Existing

The newly created group will replace the existing group.

Union With Existing

The group will consist of the union between the newly created group and the already existing group.

Intersect With Existing

The group will consist of the intersection between the newly created group and the already existing group.

Subtract From Existing

The group will consist of the contents of the already existing group that are not also in the newly created group.

Number

Enable

Enables grouping by number.

Create Ordered

Orders the points/primitives in the group in the order they are entered. Useful when skinning.

Operation

Groups by a pattern, a range, or an expression.

Filter Expression

This is evaluated for every point or primitive. If it is true, the element is added to the group. It supports all the local variables of the Point and Primitive operations.

Edge groups are currently not supported with expressions.

Note

Points and primitives that match the expression will be in the final group regardless of the other tabs.

Pattern

Enter the pattern to be grouped.

This field also accepts edge patterns:

Code

Meaning

n

All edges in primitive number n.

pn

Point number n / edges with point number n.

nem

Edge number m of primitive n.

pa-b

Edges between point number a and point number b.

Start

The start of the range to be grouped. For edge groups the ranges will be interpreted as primitive indices.

End

The end of the range to be grouped. For edge groups the ranges will be interpreted as primitive indices.

Select _ of _

Group every # of # primitives/points. Edges are grouped here by primitive numbers.

Bounding

Enable

Enable grouping by bounding volume.

Bounding Type

Shape of bounding volume.

Size

Size of bounding volume.

Center

Center of bounding volume.

Iso

The iso surface of volume to do the grouping with. Points whose volume value are less than this will be grouped. A value of 0 is good for SDF volumes. For fog volumes, use a value of 0.5 and turn on Invert Volumes for best results.

Invert Volume

Inverts sense of being inside the volume.

Include Entities Not Wholly Contained

Include entities that are not wholly contained within the bounding object.

Normal

Enable

Enable grouping by normal.

Direction

Normal direction to group by.

Spread Angle

Deviation from the direction to allow in the group.

Backface from

Groups primitives facing away from this object.

Note

Unlike grouping by normal this operation will remove items that satisfy the backface condition from any group created via another tab. If no other group is created, this operation will add satisfying items.

Non-Planar Polys

Groups polygons that are non-planar given the tolerance.

Note

Polygons that are non-planar will be added to the group regardless of the other tabs.

Edges

Note

Points, primitives, and edges that match the edge grouping rules will be in the final group regardless of the other tabs.

Enable

Enables edge grouping.

Min Edge Angle

Groups primitives with at least this angle between their normals. For edge groups, an edge is included in the group if the two primitives that share it satisfy this angle requirement.

Max Edge Angle

Groups primitives with at most this angle between their normals. For edge groups, an edge is included in the group if the two primitives that share it satisfy this angle requirement.

Edge Angle Uses Angle Between Edges

For edge groups only, when this option is checked edges are included in the group based on the angle between themselves, instead of the angle between the primitives that share them.

Each edge is compared against all other edges that share a point with it.

Min Edge Length

Groups edges that have at least this length.

Max Edge Length

Groups edges that have at most this length.

Edge Depth

Number of edges away from the points in Point Group.

Point Group

Points around which group is centered.

Unshared Edges

Groups all points/primitives/edges with unshared edges. For edge groups, an edge is added to the group if it only has one primitive adjacent to it.

Create Boundary Groups

Create groups containing surface boundary points.

Combine

Combines different groups based on boolean operators.

Combine Entity

The type of group on which to operate. While it can usually be determined from the given groups, this parameter is useful to resolve ambiguous cases.

Group

This section allows you to create a new group out of existing groups. Enter the group to operate on or create in the first field and the name of the existing group in the field on the other side of the buttons. You can either include the contents of the other group by selecting Equals or everything that is not the other group by selecting Equals all but. Use the fields below to combine additional groups.

Edit

Rename

Renames an existing group to something else. When renaming groups, you can use wildcards to rename several groups that match the specified pattern. For more information about the pattern substitution rules, please see Attrib String Edit.

Group

Group to rename.

New Name

New name of group.

Convert

Converts between different types of groups. When converting groups, you can use wildcards to convert several groups that match the specified pattern. For more information about the pattern substitution rules, please see Attrib String Edit.

Convert From

Source group type.

Convert To

Newly created group type.

Group

Group to convert.

Convert Name

The new name of the converted group. Leave this empty to keep the name of the original group.

Preserve Original

Preserves original geometry.

Omit Entities in New Group not Wholly Contained in the Old Group

This option allows only primitives that have all of their points or edges in the original point group to be included in the resulting primitive group, when converting from a point group or an edge group to a primitive group.

The same thing applies when converting from a point group or a primitive group to an edge group. Only edges with both points in the original point group will be added to the new group.

Delete

Deletes an existing group.

Group

Group to delete.

Locals

N

(number of points/primitives/edges) -1

See list of standard variables.

Examples

FeaturedEdges

This example demonstrates how feature edges of your object can be preserved during a polyreduce by using an Edge Group.

The following examples include this node.

Keyboard Example for MIDI Out channel node

This example demonstrates how to write MIDI data using the MIDI Out CHOP, and read it in using the MIDI In CHOP. The MIDI that is written out is based on geometry, and the MIDI that is read in is controlling other geometry.

ApplyRelationship Example for Apply Relationship dynamics node

This example shows how you can use the Apply Relationship DOP to add pin constraints to wire objects.

PanelledClothPrism Example for Cloth Object dynamics node

This example demonstraits a paneling workflow to create a open-ended rectangular prism which keeps its shape.

Street Crowd Example Example for Crowd Solver dynamics node

Crowd example showing a street setup with two agent groups

The setup creates two groups of agents. The yellow agents are zombies which follow a path of the street. The blue agents are living pedestrians that wander around until they come into proximity of the zombies and then they swtich into a running state.

Triggers to change agent states are setup in the crowd_sim dopnet. The zombies group uses proximity to the stoplights and the color of the light to transition into a standing state when lights are red. The living group transition into a running state when they get close to the zombie agents.

Note

The animation clips need to be baked out before playing the scene. This should happen automatically if example is created from Crowds shelf. Otherwise save scene file to a location of your choice and click Render on '/obj/bake_cycles' ropnet to write out the files. The default path for the files is ${HIP}/agents.

FEMSpheres Example for finiteelementsolver dynamics node

This example demonstrates how to use the FEM Solver to deform spheres when they collide with the ground plane. The spheres have particle based animation on them prior to collision with the ground and are swapped to the FEM solver on collision.

FlipFluidWire Example for FLIP Solver dynamics node

This example demonstrates the use of the Flip Solver and the Fluid Force DOP. The Fluid Force DOP is used to apply a drag force on a wire object according to the motions of a flip fluid. The drag force is only applied at locations where fluid exists in the fluid object.

FluidWireInteraction Example for Fluid Force dynamics node

This example demonstrates the use of the Fluid Force DOP. The Fluid Force DOP is used to apply a drag force on a wire object according to the motions of a fluid object. The drag force is only applied at locations where fluid exist in the fluid object.

grass

This example simulates grass being pushed down by an RBD object. Fur Objects are used to represent the blades of grass and Wire Objects are used to simulate the motion. When a single Fur Object is used to represent the grass, neighbouring blades of grass will have similar motion. Additional objects with different stiffness values can be used to make the motion less uniform. When "Complex Mode" is enabled, two objects are used to represent the grass. The stiffness of each set of curves can be controlled by adjusting the "Angular Spring Constant" and "Linear Spring Constant" parameters on the corresponding Wire Objects.

KeyframedGrains Example for POP Grains dynamics node

This example demonstrates keyframing the internal grains of a solid pighead to create an animated puppet.

StackedBricks Example for RBD Fractured Object dynamics node

This example shows how to create a large number of RBD objects from a single SOP. It also shows how a velocity point attribute can be used to set the initial motion for the objects.

BreakingRock

This is an example of how to use the RBD Glue Object node to create an RBD object that automatically breaks apart on collision. It also demonstrates one technique for breaking a model into pieces appropriate for this sort of simulation.

ChoreographedBreakup

This example shows how one can control the break up of any glued object through the use of the RBD State node.

A torus, composed of spheres, is glued together. An additional sweep plane is defined. Any sphere which ends up on the wrong side of the sweep plane is broken off the torus and left to bounce on its own. This lets the break up of the torus to be controlled over many frames.

InheritVelocity Example for RBD State dynamics node

This example demonstrates the use of the RBD State node to inherit velocity from movement and collision with other objects in a glued RBD fracture simulation.

ReferenceFrameForce Example for Reference Frame Force dynamics node

An RBD vase filled with water performs the water simulation in the vase’s reference frame.

AnimatedSkin Example for Wire Glue Constraint dynamics node

This example shows how the Wire Glue Constraint DOP can constrain a wire object to animated geometry.

BeadCurtain Example for Wire Solver dynamics node

This example uses the Wire Solver to simulate a bead curtain. A stream of RBD balls are thrown at the curtain, and through feedback the curtain and balls are mutually affected by the collisions.

BendingTree Example for Wire Solver dynamics node

This example shows how to use the Wire Solver to simulate a flexible tree built with the LSystem SOP.

CurveAdvection Example for Wire Solver dynamics node

This example demonstrates how to advect curves based on a pyro simulation. An Attribute Wrangle SOP is used to sample the velocity from the volume and apply it to a wire object.

Pendulum Example for Wire Solver dynamics node

This example shows how to mutually affect an object at the constraint point and the object at the bob of the pendulum.

PortalBox Example for Environment Light object node

This example shows how to create a portal light using window geometry. A box is modeled and then split into 2 SOPs - one representing windows and the other walls. The walls are rendered, while the windows are used to specify the portal for an environment light. Toggle on and off the portal to see the render quality difference while rendering in the Render View.

AddItUp Example for Add geometry node

This network demonstrates the many uses of the Add SOP to build and manipulate geometry:

  • It is used to create points in space which can then be used to create polygons using designated patterns. These polygons can be open or closed. Futhermore, each point can be animated through expressions or keyframes.

  • It is used to both create points and grab points from other primitives. These points may be used in polygon creation.

  • The Add SOP may be utilized to create a polygon using points extracted from another polygonal object. A Group SOP allows for the creation of the point group that will be referenced by the Add SOP.

  • The Add SOP is used to create a polygon from a group of animated Null objects. An Object Merge SOP references the null points in SOPs which are then fed into an Add SOP for polygon generation. A Fit SOP, in turn, is used to create an interpolated spline from the referenced null points. The result is an animted spline.

  • The Add SOP is used to generate points without creating any primitives. Also, points from other objects can be extracted through the Add SOP.

  • Finally the Add SOP can additionally be used to procedurally create rows and columns.

BoxSpring Example for Box geometry node

The Box SOP is used for more than just creating boxes. It can also envelop existing geometry for specific purposes.

The Box SOP can either create a simple six-sided polygon box, calculate the bounding box size for geometry, or be used in conjunction with the Lattice SOP.

There are two objects within the box.hip file that are examples of this:

  • animated_bounding_box

    The animated_bounding_box object shows how you can envelope an object and surround it with a simple box, even if it is animated. This can be useful when displaying complicated geometry, in which case you would put the display flag on the box object and the render flag on the complicated geometry.

  • box_spring_lattice

    This is an example, a Lattice SOP used in conjunction with the Box SOP. The Box SOP is used to envelope some geometry, in this case a sphere. Divisions is checked to create the proper geometry by referencing the number of divisions in the Lattice SOP.

The top points of the box are grouped by a Group SOP. The Spring SOP uses these points as the Fixed Points from which to create the deformation.

Using the Box SOP in this way allows you to change the incoming geometry (the basic_sphere in this case) and have the box and lattice automatically re-size for you.

CapCarousel Example for Cap geometry node

This example shows how to cap two designated areas of a geometry by creating groups.

Two Group SOPs are used to create two groups, group_bottom and group_middle. These groups are created using Number Enable. The Pattern number corresponds to the primitive number, which you can see by turning on primitive numbers.

Two Cap SOPs are used to cap the two groups. By capping either the First V Cap or Last V Cap, you can select which end of the group you want to cap.

BlobbySphere Example for Channel geometry node

This is a simple example of how to utilize the Channel SOP to bring information from CHOPs into SOPs and apply it to geometry.

We use an animated sphere and create a lag in the animation of selected areas of the sphere.

In a CHOP network, the Geometry CHOP brings in point position data of the sphere geometry and runs it through a Lag CHOP for the delaying effect. The Channel SOP then references the Lag CHOP and applies the point data back to the selected areas of the original NURBS sphere.

CookieGear

This example demonstrates how to perform boolean operations using the Cookie SOP.

In this instance, the points are consolidated using a Facet SOP and a Divide SOP is used to create a smooth surface for the Cookie SOP to operate on.

CookieStar

This example creates a boolean operation using the Cookie SOP.

A star geometry is created and used to subtract the shape from the sphere geometry.

StampStars Example for Copy Stamp geometry node

This example demonstrates the power of the Copy SOP’s Stamp operation.

Here, a Copy SOP is used to copy a circle onto the points of a sphere. The Stamp operation then applies various modifications to those copies based on division, scale, color, and extrusion. This results in the generation of a randomized variety of "stars".

Starting with a simple circle, a large number of variations are created using in the copies through the use of Stamping with expressions.

DeleteDemo Example for Delete geometry node

This example demonstrates how the Delete SOP is used to remove specified geometry from a scene.

Geometry may be deleted by Point or Primitive Numbers, by Group, or by position within a Bounding Box.

LowHigh Example for Dop Import geometry node

This example shows how to create a low res - high res set up to support RBD objects. The two main methods are to reference copy the DOP Import SOP and feed in the high res geometry or to use point instancing with an Instance Object.

DirectedEdgesPath Example for Find Shortest Path geometry node

This is an example of how to use the FindShortestPath SOP to find a path through geometry where certain edges are directed edges. Directed edges can only be traversed in one direction.

Try changing the start and end points, as well as the directed edges, to explore how the SOP avoids going the wrong direction, and cannot reach points with only outgoing edges.

PathAnalysis Example for Find Shortest Path geometry node

This is an advanced example of how to use the FindShortestPath SOP to prefer "central" paths, based on centraily measures computed using FindShortestPath and AttribWrangle. This helps avoid staying too close to walls where avoidable.

Turn on the Display Option > Optimization > Culling > Remove Backfaces to see inside the space more easily. Try visualizing the different centrality measures using the switch node. The same example without considering the centrality of the path is demonstrated in a side branch of the SOP network, in order to see the difference.

cutup

This example shows how to use the foreach sop to intersect one object with each part of another object and merge the results together.

FurBallWorkflow Example for Fur geometry node

This example demonstrates how the Fur SOP and Mantra Fur Procedural can be applied to an animated skin geometry. CVEX shaders are used to apply a custom look to the hairs based upon attributes assigned to the geometry.

FeaturedEdges

This example demonstrates how feature edges of your object can be preserved during a polyreduce by using an Edge Group.

GroupCopyBox Example for Group Copy geometry node

This example demonstrates how to group geometry based on a group from another network.

TransferProximity Example for Group Transfer geometry node

This example demonstrates how to use the proximity of a group’s primitives to transfer the group to a new set of geometry using the Group Transfer SOP.

DeformLattice Example for Lattice geometry node

The Lattice SOP creates animated deformations by manipulating simpler geometry that encloses the source geometry.

This example shows how the Lattice SOP can use an animated Box SOP to deform the source geometry. In this case, the source geometry is a sphere.

LatticePerChunk Example for Lattice geometry node

This example shows how you can use the foreach sop to apply a lattice to each fragment of a sphere.

LsystemBuilding Example for L-System geometry node

This example demonstrates how to use the L-System SOP to generate buildings with windows.

MeasureArea Example for Measure geometry node

This example demonstrates how to create groups based on the area of a primitive using the Measure SOP.

MetaExpression Example for Metaball geometry node

This example demonstrates how to use a Meta Expression in an Attribute Create SOP to control how metaballs merge together.

ParticleExamples Example for Particle geometry node

This example contains five demonstrations of some of the various uses of the Particle SOP.

  • Creep particles along a surface using a the Creep SOP.

  • Group birth particles from a group of points on a surface.

  • Bounce particles.

  • Split particles on contact.

  • Collide particles off a collision object.

  • Birth particles from a moving object.

  • Use a metaball to exert force on a particle.

PolyStitchBasicSmooth Example for PolyStitch geometry node

This example demonstrates how the Polystitch SOP can stitch together or refine seams between polygonal surfaces with incongruent U and V divisions. This is useful for smoothing and eliminating cracks at seams.

PolywireModel Example for PolyWire geometry node

This example demonstrates how the Polywire SOP builds polygonal geometry based on a polygonal frame, and how the parameters can be customized with local variables.

PrimRotate Example for Primitive geometry node

This example demonstrates how to rotate individual primitives on a grid surface using the Primitive SOP.

A Group SOP is used to animate a bounding box over the grid surface, thereby activating the randomized rotations in the Primitive SOP.

FlagProfiles Example for Profile geometry node

This example shows how to use the Project SOP to create a profile on a surface.

The Profile SOP is then used to extract the profile from the surface or remap the profile on it. It also shows how the profile will animate with the surface or independent of it.

Squidremesh Example for Remesh geometry node

This example demonstrates how to use the Remesh SOP to remesh a model of a giant squid crab while preserving the hard edges of the model.

DoorWithPolkaDots Example for Scatter geometry node

This example demonstrates how you can use the Scatter SOP to scatter points that stay consistent through topology changes like remodelling the input geometry or breaking it. It does this by using the option to scatter in texture space.

SkinSurfaceCopies Example for Skin geometry node

This is an example of how to create a new surface using the Skin SOP.

Here a surface is extracted from a torus, copied and used to create a skin that shoots up from the torus.

Hills Example for Smooth geometry node

The Smooth SOP is used to refine the distance between a number of points into more uniform values.

The process evens out minor variances in the points defining the curve, while still maintaining the value trends of the larger, overall curve.

SpringExamples Example for Spring geometry node

This example demonstrates the three main functions of the Spring SOP.

It shows how the Spring SOP can deform input geometry to create a cloth like effect by creating interactions between two objects, defining motion, and applying forces.

Play the animation to see the Spring SOP in action.

SpringFlag Example for Spring geometry node

This example shows how a flag can be simulated using a Spring SOP.

Here the Spring SOP applies forces that simulate the laws of physics on the points of a Grid SOP to create the flag effect.

SpringHair Example for Spring geometry node

This example demonstrates a way to create dynamic hair using the Spring SOP.

A Line is copied onto the points of a Sphere and input into the Spring SOP as a source. Then a Metaball and Force are input to further effect the motion of the hair.

SpringLine Example for Spring geometry node

Here the Spring SOP is used to give a line rubber band-like characteristics. Used in combination with an Xform SOP, the rubber band dances about on the floor.

UnpackWithStyle Example for Unpack geometry node

This example demonstrates the Unpack SOPs ability to evaluate style sheet information while unpacking. Nested packed primitives are used to demonstrate partial unpacking while still preserving styling information. This example also demonstrates the use of a Python SOP to extract information from the per-primitive style sheets.

SoftRotate Example for UV Transform geometry node

Animate the rotation of texture coordinates using the UV Transform SOP with a soft falloff.

Press Play to see the animation.

VisibilityCheckers Example for Visibility geometry node

This example demonstrates the how the Visibility SOP can hide or expose selected primitives in the 2D or 3D view ports.

DetectOverlap Example for Volume Merge geometry node

This example shows how to detect the overlapping regions of many incoming volumes procedurally using Volume SOP and Volume Merge SOP.

ModulusTransform Example for Transform geometry node

Create a cyclical animation using the Transform SOP, the Group SOP, and the modulus operation.

See also

Geometry nodes

  • Adaptive Prune

    Removes elements while trying to maintain the overall appearance.

  • Add

    Creates Points or Polygons, or adds points/polys to an input.

  • Agent

    Creates agent primitives.

  • Agent Clip

    Adds new clips to agent primitives.

  • Agent Clip

    Adds new clips to agent primitives.

  • Agent Clip Properties

    Defines how agents' animation clips should be played back.

  • Agent Clip Transition Graph

    Creates geometry describing possible transitions between animation clips.

  • Agent Collision Layer

    Creates a new agent layer that is suitable for collision detection.

  • Agent Configure Joints

    Creates point attributes that specify the rotation limits of an agent’s joints.

  • Agent Constraint Network

    Builds a constraint network to hold an agent’s limbs together.

  • Agent Definition Cache

    Writes agent definition files to disk.

  • Agent Edit

    Edits properties of agent primitives.

  • Agent Layer

    Adds a new layer to agent primitives.

  • Agent Look At

    Adjusts the head of an agent to look at a specific object or position.

  • Agent Look At

    Adjusts the head of an agent to look at a specific object or position.

  • Agent Prep

    Adds various common point attributes to agents for use by other crowd nodes.

  • Agent Prep

    Adds various common point attributes to agents for use by other crowd nodes.

  • Agent Proxy

    Provides simple proxy geometry for an agent.

  • Agent Relationship

    Creates parent-child relationships between agents.

  • Agent Terrain Adaptation

    Adapts agents' legs to conform to terrain and prevent the feet from sliding.

  • Agent Transform Group

    Adds new transform groups to agent primitives.

  • Agent Unpack

    Extracts geometry from agent primitives.

  • Agent Vellum Unpack

    Extracts geometry from agent primitives for a Vellum simulation.

  • Alembic

    Loads the geometry from an Alembic scene archive (.abc) file into a geometry network.

  • Alembic Group

    Creates a geometry group for Alembic primitives.

  • Alembic Primitive

    Modifies intrinsic properties of Alembic primitives.

  • Alembic ROP output driver

  • Align

    Aligns a group of primitives to each other or to an auxiliary input.

  • Assemble

    Cleans up a series of break operations and creates the resulting pieces.

  • Attribute Blur

    Blurs out (or "relaxes") points in a mesh or a point cloud.

  • Attribute Cast

    Changes the size/precision Houdini uses to store an attribute.

  • Attribute Composite

    Composites vertex, point, primitive, and/or detail attributes between two or more selections.

  • Attribute Copy

    Copies attributes between groups of vertices, points, or primitives.

  • Attribute Create

    Adds or edits user defined attributes.

  • Attribute Delete

    Deletes point and primitive attributes.

  • Attribute Expression

    Allows simple VEX expressions to modify attributes.

  • Attribute Fade

    Fades a point attribute in and out over time.

  • Attribute Interpolate

    Interpolates attributes within primitives or based on explicit weights.

  • Attribute Mirror

    Copies and flips attributes from one side of a plane to another.

  • Attribute Noise

    Adds noise to attributes of the incoming geometry.

  • Attribute Promote

    Promotes or demotes attributes from one geometry level to another.

  • Attribute Randomize

    Generates random attribute values of various distributions.

  • Attribute Rename

    Renames or deletes point and primitive attributes.

  • Attribute Reorient

    Modifies point attributes based on differences between two models.

  • Attribute String Edit

    Edits string attribute values.

  • Attribute Swap

    Copies, moves, or swaps the contents of attributes.

  • Attribute Transfer

    Transfers vertex, point, primitive, and/or detail attributes between two models.

  • Attribute Transfer By UV

    Transfers attributes between two geometries based on UV proximity.

  • Attribute VOP

    Runs a VOP network to modify geometry attributes.

  • Attribute Wrangle

    Runs a VEX snippet to modify attribute values.

  • Attribute from Map

    Samples texture map information to a point attribute.

  • Attribute from Volume

    Copies information from a volume onto the point attributes of another piece of geometry, with optional remapping.

  • Bake ODE

    Converts primitives for ODE and Bullet solvers.

  • Bake Volume

    Computes lighting values within volume primitives

  • Basis

    Provides operations for moving knots within the parametric space of a NURBS curve or surface.

  • Bend

    Applies deformations such as bend, taper, squash/stretch, and twist.

  • Blast

    Deletes primitives, points, edges or breakpoints.

  • Blend Shapes

    Computes a 3D metamorphosis between shapes with the same topology.

  • Blend Shapes

    Computes a 3D metamorphosis between shapes with the same topology.

  • Block Begin

    The start of a looping block.

  • Block Begin Compile

    The start of a compile block.

  • Block End

    The end/output of a looping block.

  • Block End Compile

    The end/output of a compile block.

  • Bone Capture

    Supports Bone Deform by assigning capture weights to bones.

  • Bone Capture Biharmonic

    Supports Deform by assigning capture weights to points based on biharmonic functions on tetrahedral meshes.

  • Bone Capture Lines

    Supports Bone Capture Biharmonic by creating lines from bones with suitable attributes.

  • Bone Capture Proximity

    Supports Bone Deform by assigning capture weights to points based on distance to bones.

  • Bone Deform

    Uses capture attributes created from bones to deform geometry according to their movement.

  • Bone Link

    Creates default geometry for Bone objects.

  • Boolean

    Combines two polygonal objects with boolean operators, or finds the intersection lines between two polygonal objects.

  • Boolean Fracture

    Fractures the input geometry using cutting surfaces.

  • Bound

    Creates an axis-aligned bounding box or sphere for the input geometry.

  • Box

    Creates a cube or six-sided rectangular box.

  • Break

    Breaks the input geometry using the specified cutting shape.

  • Bulge

    Deforms the points in the first input using one or more magnets from the second input.

  • Cache

    Records and caches its input geometry for faster playback.

  • Cap

    Closes open areas with flat or rounded coverings.

  • Capture Attribute Pack

    Converts array attributes into a single index-pair capture attribute.

  • Capture Attribute Unpack

    Converts a single index-pair capture attribute into per-point and detail array attributes.

  • Capture Correct

    Adjusts capture regions and capture weights.

  • Capture Layer Paint

    Lets you paint capture attributes directly onto geometry.

  • Capture Mirror

    Copies capture attributes from one half of a symmetric model to the other.

  • Capture Override

    Overrides the capture weights on individual points.

  • Capture Region

    Supports Capture and Deform operation by creating a volume within which points are captured to a bone.

  • Carve

    Slices, cuts or extracts points or cross-sections from a primitive.

  • Channel

    Reads sample data from a chop and converts it into point positions and point attributes.

  • Circle

    Creates open or closed arcs, circles and ellipses.

  • Clay

    Lets you deform NURBS faces and NURBS surfaces by pulling points that lie directly on them.

  • Clean

    Helps clean up dirty models.

  • Clip

    Removes or groups geometry on one side of a plane, or creases geometry along a plane.

  • Cloth Capture

    Captures low-res simulated cloth.

  • Cloth Deform

    Deforms geometry captured by the Cloth Capture SOP.

  • Cloud

    Creates a volume representation of source geometry.

  • Cloud Light

    Fills a volume with a diffuse light.

  • Cloud Noise

    Applies a cloud like noise to a Fog volume.

  • Cluster

    Low-level machinery to cluster points based on their positions (or any vector attribute).

  • Cluster Points

    Higher-level node to cluster points based on their positions (or any vector attribute).

  • Collision Source

    Creates geometry and VDB volumes for use with DOPs collisions.

  • Color

    Adds color attributes to geometry.

  • Comb

    Adjust surface point normals by painting.

  • Connect Adjacent Pieces

    Creates lines between nearby pieces.

  • Connectivity

    Creates an attribute with a unique value for each set of connected primitives or points.

  • Control

    Creates simple geometry for use as control shapes.

  • Convert

    Converts geometry from one geometry type to another.

  • Convert HeightField

    Converts a 2D height field to a 3D VDB volume, polygon surface, or polygon soup surface.

  • Convert Line

    Converts the input geometry into line segments.

  • Convert Meta

    Polygonizes metaball geometry.

  • Convert Tets

    Generates the oriented surface of a tetrahedron mesh.

  • Convert VDB

    Converts sparse volumes.

  • Convert VDB Points

    Converts a Point Cloud into a VDB Points Primitive, or vice versa.

  • Convert Volume

    Converts the iso-surface of a volume into a polygonal surface.

  • Convex Decomposition

    Decomposes the input geometry into approximate convex segments.

  • Copy Stamp

    Creates multiple copies of the input geometry, or copies the geometry onto the points of the second input.

  • Copy and Transform

    Copies geometry and applies transformations to the copies.

  • Copy to Points

    Copies the geometry in the first input onto the points of the second input.

  • Crease

    Manually adds or removes a creaseweight attribute to/from polygon edges, for use with the Subdivide SOP.

  • Creep

    Deforms and animates a piece of geometry across a surface.

  • Crowd Source

    Populates a crowd of agent primitives.

  • Crowd Source

    Creates crowd agents to be used with the crowd solver.

  • Curve

    Creates polygonal, NURBS, or Bezier curves.

  • Curveclay

    Deforms a spline surface by reshaping a curve on the surface.

  • Curvesect

    Finds the intersections (or points of minimum distance) between two or more curves or faces.

  • DOP I/O

    Imports fields from DOP simulations, saves them to disk, and loads them back again.

  • DOP Import Fields

    Imports scalar and vector fields from a DOP simulation.

  • DOP Import Records

    Imports option and record data from DOP simulations into points with point attributes.

  • DOP Network

  • Debris Source

    Generates point emission sources for debris from separating fractured rigid body objects.

  • Deformation Wrangle

    Runs a VEX snippet to deform geometry.

  • Delete

    Deletes input geometry by group, entity number, bounding volume, primitive/point/edge normals, and/or degeneracy.

  • DeltaMush

    Smooths out (or "relaxes") point deformations.

  • Detangle

    Attempts to prevent collisions when deforming geometry.

  • Dissolve

    Deletes edges from the input polygonal geometry merging polygons with shared edges.

  • Dissolve

    Deletes points, primitives, and edges from the input geometry and repairs any holes left behind.

  • Divide

    Divides, smooths, and triangulates polygons.

  • Dop Import

    Imports and transforms geometry based on information extracted from a DOP simulation.

  • Draw Curve

    Creates a curve based on user input in the viewport.

  • Draw Guides

  • Each

    Culls the input geometry according to the specifications of the For Each SOP.

  • Edge Collapse

    Collapses edges and faces to their centerpoints.

  • Edge Cusp

    Sharpens edges by uniquing their points and recomputing point normals.

  • Edge Divide

    Inserts points on the edges of polygons and optionally connects them.

  • Edge Flip

    Flips the direction of polygon edges.

  • Edge Fracture

    Cuts geometry along edges using guiding curves.

  • Edge Transport

    Copies and optionally modifies attribute values along edges networks and curves.

  • Edit

    Edits points, edges, or faces interactively.

  • Ends

    Closes, opens, or clamps end points.

  • Enumerate

    Sets an attribute on selected points or primitives to sequential numbers.

  • Error

    Generates a message, warning, or error, which can show up on a parent asset.

  • Exploded View

    Pushes geometry out from the center to create an exploded view.

  • Extract Centroid

    Computes the centroid of each piece of the geometry.

  • Extract Transform

    Computes the best-fit transform between two pieces of geometry.

  • Extrude

    Extrudes geometry along a normal.

  • Extrude Volume

    Extrudes surface geometry into a volume.

  • FEM Visualization

  • FLIP Source

    Creates a surface or density VDB for sourcing FLIP simulations.

  • Facet

    Controls the smoothness of faceting of a surface.

  • Falloff

    Adds smooth distance attributes to geometry.

  • Filament Advect

    Evolves polygonal curves as vortex filaments.

  • File

    Reads, writes, or caches geometry on disk.

  • File Cache

    Writes and reads geometry sequences to disk.

  • File Merge

    Reads and collates data from disk.

  • Fillet

    Creates smooth bridging geometry between two curves or surfaces.

  • Filmbox FBX ROP output driver

  • Find Shortest Path

    Finds the shortest paths from start points to end points, following the edges of a surface.

  • Fit

    Fits a spline curve to points, or a spline surface to a mesh of points.

  • Fluid Compress

    Compresses the output of fluid simulations to decrease size on disk

  • Font

    Creates 3D text from Type 1, TrueType and OpenType fonts.

  • Force

    Uses a metaball to attract or repel points or springs.

  • Fractal

    Creates jagged mountain-like divisions of the input geometry.

  • Fur

    Creates a set of hair-like curves across a surface.

  • Fuse

    Merges or splits (uniques) points.

  • Glue Cluster

    Adds strength to a glue constraint network according to cluster values.

  • Grain Source

    Generates particles to be used as sources in a particle-based grain simulation.

  • Graph Color

    Assigns a unique integer attribute to non-touching components.

  • Grid

    Creates planar geometry.

  • Groom Blend

    Blends the guides and skin of two grooms.

  • Groom Fetch

    Fetches groom data from grooming objects.

  • Groom Pack

    Packs the components of a groom into a set of named Packed Primitives for the purpose of writing it to disk.

  • Groom Switch

    Switches between all components of two groom streams.

  • Groom Unpack

    Unpacks the components of a groom from a packed groom.

  • Group

    Generates groups of points, primitives, edges, or vertices according to various criteria.

  • Group Combine

    Combines point groups, primitive groups, or edge groups according to boolean operations.

  • Group Copy

    Copies groups between two pieces of geometry, based on point/primitive numbers.

  • Group Delete

    Deletes groups of points, primitives, edges, or vertices according to patterns.

  • Group Expression

    Runs VEX expressions to modify group membership.

  • Group Paint

    Sets group membership interactively by painting.

  • Group Promote

    Converts point, primitive, edge, or vertex groups into point, primitive, edge, or vertex groups.

  • Group Range

    Groups points and primitives by ranges.

  • Group Rename

    Renames groups according to patterns.

  • Group Transfer

    Transfers groups between two pieces of geometry, based on proximity.

  • Guide Advect

    Advects guide points through a velocity volume.

  • Guide Collide With VDB

    Resolves collisions of guide curves with VDB signed distance fields.

  • Guide Deform

    Deforms geometry with an animated skin and optionally guide curves.

  • Guide Groom

    Allows intuitive manipulation of guide curves in the viewport.

  • Guide Group

    Creates standard primitive groups used by grooming tools.

  • Guide Initialize

    Quickly give hair guides some initial direction.

  • Guide Mask

    Creates masking attributes for other grooming operations.

  • Guide Partition

    Creates and prepares parting lines for use with hair generation.

  • Guide Skin Attribute Lookup

    Looks up skin geometry attributes under the root point of guide curves.

  • Guide Tangent Space

    Constructs a coherent tangent space along a curve.

  • Guide Transfer

    Transfer hair guides between geometries.

  • Hair Card Generate

    Converts dense hair curves to a polygon card, keeping the style and shape of the groom.

  • Hair Clump

    Clumps guide curves together.

  • Hair Generate

    Generates hair on a surface or from points.

  • Hair Growth Field

    Generates a velocity field based on stroke primitives.

  • HeightField

    Generates an initial heightfield volume for use with terrain tools.

  • HeightField Blur

    Blurs a terrain height field or mask.

  • HeightField Clip

    Limits height values to a certain minimum and/or maximum.

  • HeightField Copy Layer

    Creates a copy of a height field or mask.

  • HeightField Crop

    Extracts a square of a certain width/length from a larger height volume, or resizes/moves the boundaries of the height field.

  • HeightField Distort by Layer

    Displaces a height field by another field.

  • HeightField Distort by Noise

    Advects the input volume through a noise pattern to break up hard edges and add variety.

  • HeightField Draw Mask

    Lets you draw shapes to create a mask for height field tools.

  • HeightField Erode

    Calculates thermal and hydraulic erosion over time (frames) to create more realistic terrain.

  • HeightField Erode

    Calculates thermal and hydraulic erosion over time (frames) to create more realistic terrain.

  • HeightField Erode Hydro

    Simulates the erosion from one heightfield sliding over another for a short time.

  • HeightField Erode Precipitation

    Distributes water along a heightfield. Offers controls for adjusting the intensity, variability, and location of rainfall.

  • HeightField Erode Thermal

    Calculates the effect of thermal erosion on terrain for a short time.

  • HeightField File

    Imports a 2D image map from a file or compositing node into a height field or mask.

  • HeightField Flow Field

    Generates flow and flow direction layers according to the input height layer.

  • HeightField Isolate Layer

    Copies another layer over the mask layer, and optionally flattens the height field.

  • HeightField Layer

    Composites together two height fields.

  • HeightField Layer Clear

    Sets all values in a heightfield layer to a fixed value.

  • HeightField Layer Property

    Sets the border voxel policy on a height field volume.

  • HeightField Mask by Feature

    Creates a mask based on different features of the height layer.

  • HeightField Mask by Object

    Creates a mask based some other geometry.

  • HeightField Mask by Occlusion

    Creates a mask where the input terrain is hollow/depressed, for example riverbeds and valleys.

  • HeightField Noise

    Adds vertical noise to a height field, creating peaks and valleys.

  • HeightField Output

    Exports height and/or mask layers to disk as an image.

  • HeightField Paint

    Lets you paint values into a height or mask field using strokes.

  • HeightField Patch

    Patches features from one heightfield to another.

  • HeightField Pattern

    Adds displacement in the form of a ramps, steps, stripes, Voronoi cells, or other patterns.

  • HeightField Project

    Projects 3D geometry into a height field.

  • HeightField Quick Shade

    Applies a material that lets you plug in textures for different layers.

  • HeightField Remap

    Remaps the values in a height field or mask layer.

  • HeightField Resample

    Changes the resolution of a height field.

  • HeightField Scatter

    Scatters points across the surface of a height field.

  • HeightField Scatter

    Scatters points across the surface of a height field.

  • HeightField Slump

    Simulates loose material sliding down inclines and piling at the bottom.

  • HeightField Terrace

    Creates stepped plains from slopes in the terrain.

  • HeightField Tile Splice

    Stitches height field tiles back together.

  • HeightField Tile Split

    Splits a height field volume into rows and columns.

  • HeightField Transform

    Height field specific scales and offsets.

  • HeightField Visualize

    Visualizes elevations using a custom ramp material, and mask layers using tint colors.

  • Hole

    Makes holes in surfaces.

  • Inflate

    Deforms the points in the first input to make room for the inflation tool.

  • Instance

    Instances Geometry on Points.

  • Intersection Analysis

    Creates points with attributes at intersections between a triangle and/or curve mesh with itself, or with an optional second set of triangles and/or curves.

  • Intersection Stitch

    Composes triangle surfaces and curves together into a single connected mesh.

  • Invoke Compiled Block

    Processes its inputs using the operation of a referenced compiled block.

  • IsoOffset

    Builds an offset surface from geometry.

  • IsoSurface

    Generates an isometric surface from an implicit function.

  • Join

    The Join op connects a sequence of faces or surfaces into a single primitive that inherits their attributes.

  • Knife

    Divides, deletes, or groups geometry based on an interactively drawn line.

  • L-System

    Creates fractal geometry from the recursive application of simple rules.

  • Lattice

    Deforms geometry based on how you reshape control geometry.

  • Lidar Import

    Reads a lidar file and imports a point cloud from its data.

  • Line

    Creates polygon or NURBS lines from a position, direction, and distance.

  • MDD

    Animates points using an MDD file.

  • Magnet

    Deforms geometry by using another piece of geometry to attract or repel points.

  • Match Axis

    Aligns the input geometry to a specific axis.

  • Match Size

    Resizes and recenters the geometry according to reference geometry.

  • Match Topology

    Reorders the primitive and point numbers of the input geometry to match some reference geometry.

  • Material

    Assigns one or more materials to geometry.

  • Measure

    Measures volume, area, and perimeter of polygons and puts the results in attributes.

  • Merge

    Merges geometry from its inputs.

  • MetaGroups

    Defines groupings of metaballs so that separate groupings are treated as separate surfaces when merged.

  • Metaball

    Creates metaballs and meta-superquadric surfaces.

  • Mirror

    Duplicates and mirrors geometry across a mirror plane.

  • Mountain

    Displaces points along their normals based on fractal noise.

  • Mountain

    Displaces points along their normals based on fractal noise.

  • Muscle Capture

    Supports Muscle Deform by assigning capture weights to points based on distance away from given primitives

  • Muscle Deform

    Deforms a surface mesh representing skin to envelop or drape over geometry representing muscles

  • Name

    Creates a "naming" attribute on points or primitives allowing you to refer to them easily, similar to groups.

  • Normal

    Computes surface normal attribute.

  • Null

    Does nothing.

  • Object Merge

    Merges geometry from multiple sources and allows you to define the manner in which they are grouped together and transformed.

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  • Object_riggedmuscle@musclestrokebuilder

    Assists the creation of a Muscle or Muscle Rig by allowing you to draw a stroke on a projection surface.

  • Ocean Evaluate

    Deforms input geometry based on ocean "spectrum" volumes.

  • Ocean Evaluate

    Deforms input geometry based on ocean "spectrum" volumes.

  • Ocean Foam

    Generates particle-based foam

  • Ocean Source

    Generates particles and volumes from ocean "spectrum" volumes for use in simulations

  • Ocean Source

    Generates particles and volumes from ocean "spectrum" volumes for use in simulations

  • Ocean Spectrum

    Generates volumes containing information for simulating ocean waves.

  • Ocean Waves

    Instances individual waveforms onto input points and generated points.

  • OpenCL

    Executes an OpenCL kernel on geometry.

  • Output

    Marks the output of a sub-network.

  • Pack

    Packs geometry into an embedded primitive.

  • Pack Points

    Packs points into a tiled grid of packed primitives.

  • Packed Disk Edit

    Editing Packed Disk Primitives.

  • Packed Edit

    Editing Packed Primitives.

  • Paint

    Lets you paint color or other attributes on geometry.

  • Paint Color Volume

    Creates a color volume based on drawn curve

  • Paint Fog Volume

    Creates a fog volume based on drawn curve

  • Paint SDF Volume

    Creates an SDF volume based on drawn curve

  • Particle

    Creates simple particle simulations without requiring an entire particle network.

  • Particle Fluid Surface

    Generates a surface around the particles from a particle fluid simulation.

  • Particle Fluid Tank

    Creates a set of regular points filling a tank.

  • Partition

    Places points and primitives into groups based on a user-supplied rule.

  • Peak

    Moves primitives, points, edges or breakpoints along their normals.

  • Planar Patch

    Creates a planar polygonal patch.

  • Planar Patch from Curves

    Fills in a 2d curve network with triangles.

  • Planar Pleat

    Deforms flat geometry into a pleat.

  • Platonic Solids

    Creates platonic solids of different types.

  • Point

    Manually adds or edits point attributes.

  • Point Cloud Iso

    Constructs an iso surface from its input points.

  • Point Deform

    Deforms geometry on an arbitrary connected point mesh.

  • Point Generate

    Creates new points, optionally based on point positions in the input geometry.

  • Point Jitter

    Jitters points in random directions.

  • Point Relax

    Moves points with overlapping radii away from each other, optionally on a surface.

  • Point Replicate

    Generates a cloud of points around the input points.

  • Point Velocity

    Computes and manipulates velocities for points of a geometry.

  • Points from Volume

    Creates set of regular points filling a volume.

  • Poly Bridge

    Creates flat or tube-shaped polygon surfaces between source and destination edge loops, with controls for the shape of the bridge.

  • Poly Expand 2D

    Creates offset polygonal geometry for planar polygonal graphs.

  • Poly Extrude

    Extrudes polygonal faces and edges.

  • PolyBevel

    Creates straight, rounded, or custom fillets along edges and corners.

  • PolyBevel

    Bevels points and edges.

  • PolyCut

    Breaks curves where an attribute crosses a threshold.

  • PolyDoctor

    Helps repair invalid polygonal geometry, such as for cloth simulation.

  • PolyExtrude

    Extrudes polygonal faces and edges.

  • PolyFill

    Fills holes with polygonal patches.

  • PolyFrame

    Creates coordinate frame attributes for points and vertices.

  • PolyLoft

    Creates new polygons using existing points.

  • PolyPatch

    Creates a smooth polygonal patch from primitives.

  • PolyPath

    Cleans up topology of polygon curves.

  • PolyReduce

    Reduces the number of polygons in a model while retaining its shape. This node preserves features, attributes, textures, and quads during reduction.

  • PolySoup

    Combines polygons into a single primitive that can be more efficient for many polygons

  • PolySpline

    The PolySpline SOP fits a spline curve to a polygon or hull and outputs a polygonal approximation of that spline.

  • PolySplit

    Divides an existing polygon into multiple new polygons.

  • PolySplit

    Divides an existing polygon into multiple new polygons.

  • PolyStitch

    Stitches polygonal surfaces together, attempting to remove cracks.

  • PolyWire

    Constructs polygonal tubes around polylines, creating renderable geometry with smooth bends and intersections.

  • Pose-Space Deform

    Interpolates between a set of pose-shapes based on the value of a set of drivers.

  • Pose-Space Deform Combine

    Combine result of Pose-Space Deform with rest geometry.

  • Pose-Space Edit

    Packs geometry edits for pose-space deformation.

  • Pose-Space Edit Configure

    Creates common attributes used by the Pose-Space Edit SOP.

  • Primitive

    Edits primitive, primitive attributes, and profile curves.

  • Primitive Split

    Takes a primitive attribute and splits any points whose primitives differ by more than a specified tolerance at that attribute.

  • Profile

    Extracts or manipulates profile curves.

  • Project

    Creates profile curves on surfaces.

  • Pyro Source

    Creates points for sourcing pyro and smoke simulations.

  • Python

    Runs a Python snippet to modify the incoming geometry.

  • RBD Cluster

    Combines fractured pieces or constraints into larger clusters.

  • RBD Constraint Properties

    Creates attributes describing rigid body constraints.

  • RBD Interior Detail

    Creates additional detail on the interior surfaces of fractured geometry.

  • RBD Material Fracture

    Fractures the input geometry based on a material type.

  • RBD Pack

    Packs RBD geometry, constraints, and proxy geometry into a single geometry.

  • RBD Paint

    Paints values onto geometry or constraints using strokes.

  • RBD Unpack

    Unpacks an RBD setup into three outputs.

  • RMan Shader

    Attaches RenderMan shaders to groups of faces.

  • ROP Geometry Output

  • Rails

    Generates surfaces by stretching cross-sections between two guide rails.

  • Ray

    Projects one surface onto another.

  • Refine

    Increases the number of points/CVs in a curve or surface without changing its shape.

  • Reguide

    Scatters new guides, interpolating the properties of existing guides.

  • Remesh

    Recreates the shape of the input surface using "high-quality" (nearly equilateral) triangles.

  • Repack

    Repacks geometry as an embedded primitive.

  • Resample

    Resamples one or more curves or surfaces into even length segments.

  • Rest Position

    Sets the alignment of solid textures to the geometry so the texture stays put on the surface as it deforms.

  • Retime

    Retimes the time-dependent input geometry.

  • Reverse

    Reverses or cycles the vertex order of faces.

  • Revolve

    Revolves a curve around a center axis to sweep out a surface.

  • Rewire Vertices

    Rewires vertices to different points specified by an attribute.

  • Ripple

    Generates ripples by displacing points along the up direction specified.

  • Scatter

    Scatters new points randomly across a surface or through a volume.

  • Script

    Runs scripts when cooked.

  • Sculpt

    Lets you interactively reshape a surface by brushing.

  • Sequence Blend

    Morphs though a sequence of 3D shapes, interpolating geometry and attributes.

  • Sequence Blend

    Sequence Blend lets you do 3D Metamorphosis between shapes and Interpolate point position, colors…

  • Shape Diff

    Computes the post-deform or pre-deform difference of two geometries with similar topologies.

  • Shrinkwrap

    Computes the convex hull of the input geometry and moves its polygons inwards along their normals.

  • Shrinkwrap

    Takes the convex hull of input geometry and moves its polygons inwards along their normals.

  • Skin

    Builds a skin surface between any number of shape curves.

  • Sky

    Creates a sky filled with volumentric clouds

  • Smooth

    Smooths out (or "relaxes") polygons, meshes and curves without increasing the number of points.

  • Smooth

    Smooths out (or "relaxes") polygons, meshes and curves without increasing the number of points.

  • Soft Peak

    Moves the selected point along its normal, with smooth rolloff to surrounding points.

  • Soft Transform

    Moves the selected point, with smooth rolloff to surrounding points.

  • Solid Conform

    Creates a tetrahedral mesh that conforms to a connected mesh as much as possible.

  • Solid Embed

    Creates a simple tetrahedral mesh that covers a connected mesh.

  • Solid Fracture

    Creates a partition of a tetrahedral mesh that can be used for finite-element fracturing.

  • Solver

    Allows running a SOP network iteratively over some input geometry, with the output of the network from the previous frame serving as the input for the network at the current frame.

  • Sort

    Reorders points and primitives in different ways.

  • Sphere

    Creates a sphere or ovoid surface.

  • Split

    Splits primitives or points into two streams.

  • Spray Paint

    Spray paints random points onto a surface.

  • Spring

    Simulates the behavior of points as if the edges connecting them were springs.

  • Sprite

    A SOP node that sets the sprite display for points.

  • Starburst

    Insets points on polygonal faces.

  • Stash

    Caches the input geometry in the node on command, and then uses it as the node’s output.

  • Stitch

    Stretches two curves or surfaces to cover a smooth area.

  • Stroke

    Low level tool for building interactive assets.

  • Stroke Cache

    Simplifies the building of tools that incrementally modify geometry based on strokes.

  • Subdivide

    Subdivides polygons into smoother, higher-resolution polygons.

  • Subnetwork

    The Subnet op is essentially a way of creating a macro to represent a collection of ops as a single op in the Network Editor.

  • Super Quad

    Generates an isoquadric surface.

  • Surfsect

    Trims or creates profile curves along the intersection lines between NURBS or bezier surfaces.

  • Sweep

    Creates a surface by sweeping cross-sections along a backbone curve.

  • Switch

    Switches between network branches based on an expression or keyframe animation.

  • Table Import

    Reads a CSV file creating point per row.

  • Test Geometry: Crag

    Creates a rock creature, which can be used as test geometry.

  • Test Geometry: Pig Head

    Creates a pig head, which can be used as test geometry..

  • Test Geometry: Rubber Toy

    Creates a rubber toy, which can be used as test geometry.

  • Test Geometry: Shader Ball

    Creates a shader ball, which can be used to test shaders.

  • Test Geometry: Squab

    Creates a squab, which can be used as test geometry.

  • Test Geometry: Tommy

    Creates a soldier, which can be used as test geometry.

  • Test Simulation: Crowd Transition

    Provides a simple crowd simulation for testing transitions between animation clips.

  • Test Simulation: Ragdoll

    Provides a simple Bullet simulation for testing the behavior of a ragdoll.

  • Tet Partition

    Partitions a given tetrahedron mesh into groups of tets isolated by a given polygon mesh

  • Tetrahedralize

    Performs variations of a Delaunay Tetrahedralization.

  • TimeShift

    Cooks the input at a different time.

  • Toon Shader Attributes

    Sets attributes used by the Toon Color Shader and Toon Outline Shader.

  • TopoBuild

    Lets you interactively draw a reduced quad mesh automatically snapped to existing geometry.

  • Torus

    Creates a torus (doughnut) shaped surface.

  • Trace

    Traces curves from an image file.

  • Trail

    Creates trails behind points.

  • Transform

    The Transform operation transforms the source geometry in "object space" using a transformation matrix.

  • Transform Axis

    Transforms the input geometry relative to a specific axis.

  • Transform By Attribute

    Transforms the input geometry by a point attribute.

  • Transform Pieces

    Transforms input geometry according to transformation attributes on template geometry.

  • Tri Bezier

    Creates a triangular Bezier surface.

  • TriDivide

    Refines triangular meshes using various metrics.

  • Triangulate 2D

    Connects points to form well-shaped triangles.

  • Trim

    Trims away parts of a spline surface defined by a profile curve or untrims previous trims.

  • Tube

    Creates open or closed tubes, cones, or pyramids.

  • UV Autoseam

    Generates an edge group representing suggested seams for flattening a polygon model in UV space.

  • UV Brush

    Adjusts texture coordinates in the UV viewport by painting.

  • UV Edit

    Lets you interactively move UVs in the texture view.

  • UV Flatten

    Creates flattened pieces in texture space from 3D geometry.

  • UV Flatten

    Creates flattened pieces in texture space from 3D geometry.

  • UV Fuse

    Merges UVs.

  • UV Layout

    Packs UV islands efficiently into a limited area.

  • UV Pelt

    Relaxes UVs by pulling them out toward the edges of the texture area.

  • UV Project

    Assigns UVs by projecting them onto the surface from a set direction.

  • UV Quick Shade

    Applies an image file as a textured shader to a surface.

  • UV Texture

    Assigns texture UV coordinates to geometry for use in texture and bump mapping.

  • UV Transform

    Transforms UV texture coordinates on the source geometry.

  • UV Transform

    Transforms UV texture coordinates on the source geometry.

  • UV Unwrap

    Separates UVs into reasonably flat, non-overlapping groups.

  • Unix

    Processes geometry using an external program.

  • Unpack

    Unpacks packed primitives.

  • Unpack Points

    Unpacks points from packed primitives.

  • VDB

    Creates one or more empty/uniform VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB Activate

    Activates voxel regions of a VDB for further processing.

  • VDB Activate SDF

    Expand or contract signed distance fields stored on VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB Advect

    Moves VDBs in the input geometry along a VDB velocity field.

  • VDB Advect Points

    Moves points in the input geometry along a VDB velocity field.

  • VDB Analysis

    Computes an analytic property of a VDB volumes, such as gradient or curvature.

  • VDB Clip

    Clips VDB volume primitives using a bounding box or another VDB as a mask.

  • VDB Combine

    Combines the values of two aligned VDB volumes in various ways.

  • VDB Diagnostics

    Tests VDBs for Bad Values and Repairs.

  • VDB Fracture

    Cuts level set VDB volume primitives into multiple pieces.

  • VDB LOD

    Build an LOD Pyramid from a VDB.

  • VDB Morph SDF

    Blends between source and target SDF VDBs.

  • VDB Occlusion Mask

    Create a mask of the voxels in shadow from a camera for VDB primitives.

  • VDB Points Group

    Manipulates the Internal Groups of a VDB Points Primitive.

  • VDB Project Non-Divergent

    Removes divergence from a Vector VDB.

  • VDB Renormalize SDF

    Fixes signed distance fields stored in VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB Resample

    Re-samples a VDB volume primitive into a new orientation and/or voxel size.

  • VDB Reshape SDF

    Reshapes signed distance fields in VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB Segment by Connectivity

    Splits SDF VDBs into connected components.

  • VDB Smooth

    Smooths out the values in a VDB volume primitive.

  • VDB Smooth SDF

    Smooths out SDF values in a VDB volume primitive.

  • VDB Topology to SDF

    Creates an SDF VDB based on the active set of another VDB.

  • VDB Vector Merge

    Merges three scalar VDB into one vector VDB.

  • VDB Vector Split

    Splits a vector VDB primitive into three scalar VDB primitives.

  • VDB Visualize Tree

    Replaces a VDB volume with geometry that visualizes its structure.

  • VDB from Particle Fluid

    Generates a signed distance field (SDF) VDB volume representing the surface of a set of particles from a particle fluid simulation.

  • VDB from Particles

    Converts point clouds and/or point attributes into VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB from Polygons

    Converts polygonal surfaces and/or surface attributes into VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB to Spheres

    Fills a VDB volume with adaptively-sized spheres.

  • Vellum Configure Grain

    Configures geometry for Vellum Grain constraints.

  • Vellum Constraints

    Configure constraints on geometry for the Vellum solvers.

  • Vellum Drape

    Vellum solver setup to pre-roll fabric to drape over characters.

  • Vellum I/O

    Packs Vellum simulations, saves them to disk, and loads them back again.

  • Vellum Pack

    Packs Vellum geometry and constraints into a single geometry.

  • Vellum Post-Process

    Applies common post-processing effects to the result of Vellum solves.

  • Vellum Rest Blend

    Blends the current rest values of constraints with a rest state calculated from external geometry.

  • Vellum Solver

    Runs a dynamic Vellum simulation.

  • Vellum Unpack

    Unpacks a Vellum simulation into two outputs.

  • Verify BSDF

    Verify that a bsdf conforms to the required interface.

  • Vertex

    Manually adds or edits attributes on vertices (rather than on points).

  • Vertex Split

    Takes a vertex attribute and splits any point whose vertices differ by more than a specified tolerance at that attribute.

  • Visibility

    Shows/hides primitives in the 3D viewer and UV editor.

  • Visualize

    Lets you attach visualizations to different nodes in a geometry network.

  • Volume

    Creates a volume primitive.

  • Volume Analysis

    Computes analytic properties of volumes.

  • Volume Arrival Time

    Computes a speed-defined travel time from source points to voxels.

  • Volume Blur

    Blurs the voxels of a volume.

  • Volume Bound

    Bounds voxel data.

  • Volume Break

    Cuts polygonal objects using a signed distance field volume.

  • Volume Compress

    Re-compresses Volume Primitives.

  • Volume Convolve 3×3×3

    Convolves a volume by a 3×3×3 kernel.

  • Volume FFT

    Compute the Fast Fourier Transform of volumes.

  • Volume Feather

    Feathers the edges of volumes.

  • Volume Merge

    Flattens many volumes into one volume.

  • Volume Mix

    Combines the scalar fields of volume primitives.

  • Volume Optical Flow

    Translates the motion between two "image" volumes into displacement vectors.

  • Volume Patch

    Fill in a region of a volume with features from another volume.

  • Volume Ramp

    Remaps a volume according to a ramp.

  • Volume Rasterize

    Rasterizes into a volume.

  • Volume Rasterize Attributes

    Samples point attributes into VDBs.

  • Volume Rasterize Curve

    Converts a curve into a volume.

  • Volume Rasterize Hair

    Converts fur or hair to a volume for rendering.

  • Volume Rasterize Particles

    Converts a point cloud into a volume.

  • Volume Rasterize Points

    Converts a point cloud into a volume.

  • Volume Reduce

    Reduces the values of a volume into a single number.

  • Volume Resample

    Resamples the voxels of a volume to a new resolution.

  • Volume Resize

    Resizes the bounds of a volume without changing voxels.

  • Volume SDF

    Builds a Signed Distance Field from an isocontour of a volume.

  • Volume Slice

    Extracts 2d slices from volumes.

  • Volume Splice

    Splices overlapping volume primitives together.

  • Volume Stamp

    Stamps volumes instanced on points into a single target volume.

  • Volume Surface

    Adaptively surfaces a volume hierarchy with a regular triangle mesh.

  • Volume Trail

    Computes a trail of points through a velocity volume.

  • Volume VOP

    Runs CVEX on a set of volume primitives.

  • Volume Velocity

    Computes a velocity volume.

  • Volume Velocity from Curves

    Generates a volume velocity field using curve tangents.

  • Volume Velocity from Surface

    Generates a velocity field within a surface geometry.

  • Volume Visualization

    Adjusts attributes for multi-volume visualization.

  • Volume Wrangle

    Runs a VEX snippet to modify voxel values in a volume.

  • Volume from Attribute

    Sets the voxels of a volume from point attributes.

  • Voronoi Fracture

    Fractures the input geometry by performing a Voronoi decomposition of space around the input cell points

  • Voronoi Fracture

    Fractures the input geometry by performing a Voronoi decomposition of space around the input cell points

  • Voronoi Fracture Points

    Given an object and points of impact on the object, this SOP generates a set of points that can be used as input to the Voronoi Fracture SOP to simulate fracturing the object from those impacts.

  • Voronoi Split

    Cuts the geometry into small pieces according to a set of cuts defined by polylines.

  • Vortex Force Attributes

    Creates the point attributes needed to create a Vortex Force DOP.

  • Whitewater Source

    Generates volumes to be used as sources in a whitewater simulation.

  • Whitewater Source

    Generates emission particles and volumes to be used as sources in a Whitewater simulation.

  • Winding Number

    Computes generalized winding number of surface at query points.

  • Wire Blend

    Morphs between curve shapes while maintaining curve length.

  • Wire Capture

    Captures surfaces to a wire, allowing you to edit the wire to deform the surface.

  • Wire Deform

    Deforms geometry captured to a curve via the Wire Capture node.

  • Wire Transfer

    Transfers the shape of one curve to another.

  • Wireframe

    Constructs polygonal tubes around polylines, creating renderable geometry.

  • glTF ROP output driver

  • posescope

    Assigns channel paths and/or pickscripts to geometry.