I have 250 rocks I exported to disk in a sequence. Rocks numbered from 1 to 250.
Is there a way to import these and scatter them from disk using HF scatter? I want to use HF scatter because it recognises other scattered object and places them accordingly.
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Scatter 250 rocks using HF scatter
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- Ralph Pinel
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The way i usually load files from disk, assuming they are in the same folder:
- use a python node to read from a directory, create a point per file found that i want with the path and name as point attributes.
Then a for loop, iterate over points. For each point load the file given the path in the point's attrib. Load directly or as packed disk prim. Add class or name attrib based on loop iteration.
The HF Scatter node allows to define pieces by attribute. However i found name attribute doesn't work, so it possibly doesn't like string attribs. Use an integer attrib like class. Using this method you can scatter your 250 objects in one pass.
One bug i found however is that the point relaxation is done before object instancing, so i think the relax does not take into account the actual instance size, just the scale value in the “variability” section. Im not sure how to fix that without cracking open the scatter tool.
- use a python node to read from a directory, create a point per file found that i want with the path and name as point attributes.
import os node = hou.pwd() geo = node.geometry() #get dir contents dir = node.evalParm('pPath') # from path parm dirContent = os.listdir(dir) #create pt attribs attribPath = geo.addAttrib(hou.attribType.Point,'filePath','') attribName = geo.addAttrib(hou.attribType.Point,'fileName','') #loop over dir contents for f in dirContent : p = os.path.join(dir,f) #make sure it is a file and type is bgeo if os.path.isfile(p) and os.path.splitext(p)[1] == '.bgeo': pnt = geo.createPoint() pnt.setAttribValue(attribPath, os.path.abspath(p) ) pnt.setAttribValue(attribName, f )
Then a for loop, iterate over points. For each point load the file given the path in the point's attrib. Load directly or as packed disk prim. Add class or name attrib based on loop iteration.
The HF Scatter node allows to define pieces by attribute. However i found name attribute doesn't work, so it possibly doesn't like string attribs. Use an integer attrib like class. Using this method you can scatter your 250 objects in one pass.
One bug i found however is that the point relaxation is done before object instancing, so i think the relax does not take into account the actual instance size, just the scale value in the “variability” section. Im not sure how to fix that without cracking open the scatter tool.
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