Thank you

aRtye and tamte~ thank you for helping me!

Is it possible to make an imported mesh independent and permanent in the Houdini file? I mean for example when importing a mesh from Zbrush to Maya, the imported mesh can be saved as a new geometry inside Maya, so my Maya scene can load the mesh even if the original mesh file or path was missing…is there a way to do this in Houdini?

aRtye
BTW Jake Rice has just published an amazing in-depth look at the Dual thingy:

https://medium.com/@jakerice_7202/computing-the-dual-ff2a93077e2e

It's amazing, thank you very much aRtye!

edward
Divide SOP's Compute Dual option.

Cool!
Thank you very much Edward

Hi aRtye, thanks for your reply

The original mesh is a plain sphere, the processed mesh(topology-hive) was automatically generated by 3ds Max's topology tool.

The tool can apply a topology pattern over the entire surface of a mesh, as shown in this video ->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6KJOb-r16w&feature=youtu.be&t=1m55s [www.youtube.com]

Tool info-> https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/3DSMax/files/GUID-7358B7AB-86DB-4B3F-9954-BB11AA6FF3FE-htm.html [knowledge.autodesk.com]

I have no idea what tool or technique a proficient Houdini user usually use to change a mesh's topology to a certain pattern?

Recently I tried to make a Voronoi pattern by using Scatter + VoronoiFracture + Fuse, it seems to be okay…but I am not sure if there's any tool and trick I've been missing? I'm still quite new to Houdini, lots to learn

I'm looking for something equivalent to 3ds Max's Topology Tool in Houdini, can anyone give me any advice? Thanks!

Hi Enivob, thank you so much

Is it possible I can save the generated noise in Houdini as a displacement or height map so that I can use it as a alpha mask in Zbrush and Substance Painter?