Hi guys,

I am Houdini newbie here and trying to get similar to group nodes.

I have a grid and I wanted to get the border polygons. I am able to do that with the “unshared edges” option in the group create node. Now I want to grow this selection similar to how I would do Shift + G to grow by the adjacent faces. Is it possible to do with this the group nodes?

Is this something I have to drop into VEX to accomplish or is there an easier way?

Thanks,
Numna

One way I know you can do it without VEX only works with point groups. After you created your initial group, add a second Group node, check Include by Edges, enter your existing group in Point Group and increase Edge Depth as needed. You can then promote your group to Primitives.

are you looking for this behavior perhaps ?
https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/houdini-game-dev-tools-procedural-edge-loopsgroup-expandcontract/ [www.sidefx.com]

if so, you'll find the node in the game dev toolset

Andr
are you looking for this behavior perhaps ?
https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/houdini-game-dev-tools-procedural-edge-loopsgroup-expandcontract/ [www.sidefx.com]

if so, you'll find the node in the game dev toolset

This looks great. Surprised this is an add on and not built in houdini.

Tanto
One way I know you can do it without VEX only works with point groups. After you created your initial group, add a second Group node, check Include by Edges, enter your existing group in Point Group and increase Edge Depth as needed. You can then promote your group to Primitives.

Worked like a charm. Thanks!