Fracture SOP

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This fractures (shatters) an object into smaller pieces, in preparation for use in DOPs as an RBD Fractured Object or an RBD Glue Object.

There is an extensive help card, and the example hip file has comments as well.

Version 1 / 1 (2006-08-22 16:14:53 EDT) 3816 downloads

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Example .hip file (538.97 K)

Comments

2007-01-16 20:10:55 EST

houdiniMonk

A very useful tool. Thanks Craig :-)

Just wondering if there's a way to preserve UVs/ normals from the original asset? Alternatively I'm looking for a way to differentiate between the faces of the original asset and the newly generated faces, with the ultimate goal of exporting to .obj?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

2006-12-13 10:56:11 EST

craig

I wonder if you let it go on for long enough? I recall that it does a binary split, with each sub piece being resplit until they get "too" small (< 200 polys). So maybe you just need more steps? Or maybe there is something about the geometry you are trying to split? It's hard to say without seeing it.

2006-12-07 15:15:50 EST

craiglhoffman

Cool stuff, but am I doing something wrong? I seem to get one large chunk (about half of the original chunk I am fracturing) and then a bunch of smaller split parts on the other half. Is there a way to get it fracture evenly over the whole object?

2006-11-02 15:31:04 EST

MatrixNAN

Yes yes very useful awesome man thanks many times over.

2006-09-15 05:58:41 EDT

lisux

Very useful. Thanks Craig

2006-08-31 16:11:11 EDT

craig

The (arbitrary) bound is 200 polys. Things with < 200 polys will not be cut.

2006-08-30 09:09:20 EDT

kuba

The geometry has to be dense enough to work. But haven't figured it out what is the lowest limit of divisions...

Thanks a lot for great asset!

2006-08-28 11:00:39 EDT

jason_iversen

This a useful tool, thank you very much.

2006-08-23 04:06:12 EDT

pbowmar

WARNING: This seems to crash Houdini 8.1.697... SESI has been notified.