I've been looking for a solution for this for a while now but no luck so far.

Is there a way to control the intensity of a mountain deform by something like a ramp or “weight map” ? Coming from Softimage I suspected this would be a piece of cake, but it smells like I need to learn VEX code to do something as basic as this.

I created a “distance along geometry” mask that looks like its what I need, but I can't find a way to use in a point VOP or mountain deform.


Thanks,

R.

Unfortunately Houdini doesn't have out of the box per-point-weighted blend shapes, but they're not too hard to throw together yourself.

Assuming you have a point attribute called @weight or @mask or whatever and a base pose in input0 and the deformed pose in input1 of a Point Wrangle:

In addition to what toadstorm posted, here's an example using the Point VOP.

Edit - I'm guessing it's 6MB because of the cached strokes to paint the mask.

you can also shorten it to:

Great! Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

DaJuice
In addition to what toadstorm posted, here's an example using the Point VOP.

Edit - I'm guessing it's 6MB because of the cached strokes to paint the mask.

Works like a charm !

Thanks a lot.

R.

For the non-VEX approach, you can use a Soft Transform SOP with the Scale Y set to zero, and Distance Metric set to Attribute.