Houdini 20.5 Nodes Geometry nodes

Labs Mesh Tiler 1.0 geometry node

Makes packed geometry lying on a plane tileable.

This node takes any packed geometry placed within an (optionally) provided reference plane and makes the edges tile. It does so by detecting any meshes that overlap the boundary and copying them to the other side to produce tiling. This is a useful workflow to, for example, generate a large variety of tiling textures by simulating objects falling to the ground and making them tile before baking.

Tip

See This video tutorial for more information.

Parameters

Tiling

Mode

This controls the type of output that will be produced from the tool. Full Tile will make the output fully tileable (Used for baking), and Piece Tile will produce an output similar to a puzzle piece (Used for instancing the tiled result).

X-Axis

Controls at which side the X axis should be tiling.

Z-Axis

Controls at which side the Z axis should be tiling.

Export Ground Plane

Enabling this toggle will also export the planar surface used to tile around.

Overlap Density

This slider controls what percentage of the geometry that got tiled should be kept. Lowering this number can reduce the appearance of a thicker border on the tile.

Debug

Visualize Tiling

Enabling this will generate a heightfield from the output. This is useful for previewing what the result of a baked heightmap would look like. Easy to spot issues.

Visualize Overlapping Elements

This will color the border geometry on the generated heightfield red.

Debug Resolution

Controls the resolution of the generated debug Heightfield.

Advanced

Piece Attribute

Sets the name of the attribute that will contain the unique id of each tiled element. If a piece gets tiled on for example one axis, two pieces will share a unique id.

Overlap Group Name

Sets the name of the group containing the newly tiled geometry that got generated inside the tool.

Geometry nodes