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cglard: Member; 17 posts; Joined: Jan. 2017; Offline

Dec. 10, 2024 12:24 a.m.

Hello, I am trying a create some basalt style rocks and I have come to a problem dissolving some edges. I have included a picture of what I would like to do. Are there any thoughts on how to achieve removing just these edges leaving that basalt look?

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animatrix_: Member; 5101 posts; Joined: Feb. 2012; Offline

Dec. 10, 2024 12:27 a.m.

Hi,

Did you try Dissolve SOP?

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freshbaked: Member; 153 posts; Joined: June 2020; Offline

Dec. 10, 2024 12:54 a.m.

Instead of subdividing the triangle mesh, just compute the dual mesh, you can do that with the Divide SOP and you'll be left with the 6-sided prims.


cglard: Member; 17 posts; Joined: Jan. 2017; Offline

Dec. 10, 2024 1:42 a.m.

animatrix_
Hi,

Did you try Dissolve SOP?

I did buy I want to dissolve the specific edges I outlined to get nice clean N-Gons for basalt stone shapes. I did try and transfer a group selection but that doesn't give a perfect selection. Its close but not quite what I am need.

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cglard: Member; 17 posts; Joined: Jan. 2017; Offline

Dec. 10, 2024 1:47 a.m.

freshbaked
Instead of subdividing the triangle mesh, just compute the dual mesh, you can do that with the Divide SOP and you'll be left with the 6-sided prims.

This is a really cool method I haven't used before.


cglard: Member; 17 posts; Joined: Jan. 2017; Offline

Dec. 10, 2024 1:52 a.m.

This is my first attempt that what I was trying to do with just a voronoi fracture

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basalt initial test.jpg (85.4 KB)


cglard: Member; 17 posts; Joined: Jan. 2017; Offline

Dec. 10, 2024 7:51 p.m.

I looked at some other solutions that I found on artstation and integrated it with my needs and have a good start with this node combination.

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