Houdini 12 Nodes Surface nodes

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

Unlike the Peak node, Soft Peak takes into account a rolloff function and a radius of influence. The points within radius distance to the selected point or group will be displaced by an amount proportional to the distance, similar to the Soft Transform node

Parameters

Group

Subset of points to translate.

Distance

Distance along normal by which to translate

Soft Radius

Area of influence

Soft Type

Type of rolloff function

Tangent Angles

Angles of the cubic rolloff function’s tangents. The first value applies to the tangent farthest from the source point, the second applies to the tangent closest to the source point.

Kernel Function

Metaball kernel to use when rolloff Type is “Meta-ball”

Ignore point connectivity

Soft-displace only points connected to the points in the group, or all points within the radius of influence

Translate Along Lead Normal

Translate points within the radius along the normal of the point in Group closest to them. Otherwise translate along their respective normals, giving a mushrooming effect.

Recompute Point Normals

Recomputes point normals if they exist.

Visualize Mode

How to map the influence amount to a color.

Keep Visualization in Geometry

If true, the visualization of the fall off is written directly to the geometry rather than just temporarily.

Local variables

NPT

The number of points.

NPR

The number of primitives.

Examples that use this node

Example forExample name
Ripple SolverLoad | Launch

.../examples/nodes/dop/ripplesolver/RippleGrid.otl

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