Hi All,

I have a set of points to connect two pieces of cloth. The points are in groups. When I type the group names in the clothstitchconstraint node the resulting stitching is in the wrong order.

Is there a fix for this?
http://forums.odforce.net/topic/31548-sort-points-in-order-they-appear-in-edge-group/?tab=comments#comment-174733 [forums.odforce.net]

Moin,

“Atom” has recently published a (documenting his work in progress) video on this topic, I think that might be helpful:




Marc

Yeah, that is me. And it does work for cloth pieces that exist in the same plane/axis. But I am trying to move on and add sleeves, which lie in another axis. That is where the sorting problem lies.

Oh, sorry - that's why I full heartedly dislike pseudonyms on the interwebs

I'll have a dive into Houdini's stitching logic later next week, would love to share thoughts and experiences with you, can't help right now though, sorry!

Marc

That is ok, thanks Marc, when I went to sign up at SideFX Atom was already taken.

Maybe “pointlist” is your friend:

`pointlist(“../../yourobject”, “groupname”)`

Sorry, misunderstood the question…
understood it, after reading the odforce topic

Moin,

quick thought I had when walking the dogs … wouldn't, at least in your specific example, a “closest point” iteration based on one set of points to get the order of the other set of points be the simplest approach?
I haven't used H much over the last couple of weeks, so I am not sure if there is a “closest point” node that you could “nodally” wire in, but a VEX snippet that reorders one of the two group lists should be pretty straight forward.

For more complex situations this probably wouldn't work, but then again might …

Marc