Points from VDB volume

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I am a little confused by the results from the “Points from Volume” SOP. (h16.5 on windows 10.)

See attached example, I create some example geometry t work with.

I then create a VDB volume. I set the voxel size to 0.25, and I set the Exterior Band Voxels to 2.

I try two approaches:
  • In one I create a signed distance field.
  • In the other, I create an unsigned distance field.

I then use the Points from Volume SOP to generate a grid of points that are close to the geometry surface, with a tolerance of 0.2.

Neither seems to produce the right result. The unsigned field produces nothing, and the signed field produces some points, but many points are also missing.

I guess I must be doing something wrong…

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points_from_volume.hipnc (139.1 KB)

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I also tested this on h17, with same results. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

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