Hi gentlemen,

I wanted to try the new Wire Deform and Wire Capture SOPs, but did not succeed in making them work.
Could anybody explain how to wire a network correctly to make it work? I couldn't find any info on this subject neither in the PDF docs nor in the HTML help. Seems like it has not been documented yet or I missed something?

Cheers,
D'n'D

Here's a simple tutorial using build 128 (which might change in later builds):
- load up default houdini and dive into the sops of the model object
- now in the viewport:
- put down a default grid and set the rows and cols to be 20
- turn on the construction plane
- put down a curve sop and draw a nurbs curve within the grid … something like U shape maybe
- now in the network editor:
- append a wirecapture sop to the grid
- wire the curve to the second input of the wirecapture
- in the capture parameters page in the wirecapture, hit “initialize from primitives”
- in the u radius parameter for primitive 0, change it to 0.2 in the first component
- hit enter with the display (blue) flag set on the wirecapture
- you should now see some blue circles denoting the radius and the points of the grid shown in colour
- now middle-mouse on the output of the curve to branch off, put down an edit sop
- put the display flag on the edit sop
- turn off the footprint (purple) flag from the grid
- now in the viewport:
- hit the reselect key and move the whole curve up by about 0.1 units
- now in the network editor:
- append a wiredeform to the wirecapture
- wire the output of the curve to the second input of the wiredeform
- wire the output of the edit into the third input of the wiredeform
- put the display (blue) flag on the wiredeform
- you should now see the curve deforming the grid in the viewport
- in the deform parameters page of the wiredeform, press the “initialize from primitives” button
- play around with the scale parameter and change the U range parameters as well

For extra fun you can:
- move the breakpoints in the edit sop to get different shapes
- replace the curve with a merge sop and pipe in extra curves (just remember to press the initialize from primitives button again), or
- replace the curve with a smaller and lower rez nurbs grid and move those points

PS. This thread should really belong in the Early Access forum as it only works with builds 6.1.128 or above.
PPS. It's a work in progress which is why there is no help and icon yet.

Thank you very much edward. Now it works fine.

thanks,very good explaination