Houdini 20.5 Nodes Geometry nodes

Bone Capture geometry node

Supports Bone Deform by assigning capture weights to bones.

The closer the point is to the boundary of a Capture Region, the lighter the assigned capture weight to that region will be.

The optional second input can be used to specify extra capture regions to process in addition to those in the Parent Object hierarchy.

The Bone Capture operation will not visibly change the geometry (except to possibly add point colors for feedback). To actually change the geometry by animating the Capture Regions, append a Bone Deform operation.

Typically one or more Capture Regions are placed in an object (usually a bone) and named “cregion”. The object is then read into a Bone Capture operation through the object’s hierarchy. The object is moved to deform the Bone Capture operation’s geometry with a Bone Deform operation.

The weighting scheme is described in the next section, Capture Edit SOP.

Note

When a hip file is loaded, all of the associated capture regions are evaluated at the capture frame. Keyframes must be set to position the capture regions properly at the capture frame. Otherwise, the geometry will be weighted incorrectly upon subsequent file loads.

Parameters

Group

Optional point group to capture.

Capture

Hierarchy

Top of the object hierarchy traversed for Capture Region operations. This may be empty if the Extra Regions parameter is given.

Extra Regions

The list of paths to extra bone objects or capture regions to be used separated by spaces. This list is appended to what the Hierarchy parameter specifies.

Region SOP

Specifies the operations in which to find the Capture Regions.

Traverse into subnets

If turned on, when traversing the hierarchy for capture regions, also traverse inside object subnets.

Create Relative Skeleton Root Path

If on, then the internal cregion paths are generated with a skeleton path prefix that is relative to this sop. If off, then the prefix is determined by the longest common object path prefix out of all the capture region paths.

Use Capture Pose

If turned on, the capture parameters of bones and capture regions are used to capture points. This means that the arrangement of bones and the shapes of capture regions are capture frame independent. The capture pose can be viewed by choosing Edit ▸ Objects ▸ Bone Kinematic Override: Capture Pose from the menu.

Capture Frame

Frame number at which to compute the capture weighting. This frame will cook slower than other frames due to the weighting computation.

Weight From

Weight from either the point location or surface location (for NURBS or Bezier surfaces).

Normalize Weights

Adjusts the capture weights so they add up to one for every point. This makes the paint tools easier to use. For backwards compatibility, this should be changed to off.

Destroy Existing Weights

Destroy any existing capture weights.

Blend Factor

If destroy existing weights is off, then this parameter determines the blend factor of the created capture weights with the existing ones.

Point Coloring

Adds point color attributes to show the weighting of the points. The color of each point will be a blend of the colors of its captured regions.

Zero Weight Point Color

Color used for points with zero weight.

Override

Override File

Capture override file name (.ocapt extension). The file is loaded at the capture frame after the default weight computation. Please refer to the documentation for the .ocapt file format.

Save File

File name for saving override files with the current weighting data.

Increment Save File

Increments “Save File” name before saving.

Save All Data to File

Save the weighting of all points to the Save File.

Save Selected Points to File

Save the weighting of selected points to the Save File. Note that you must be editing this geometry in the viewport.

Force Recapture

Forces the node to recook.

See also

Geometry nodes