Hi,

I have done some research and I havent yet found any solution how to convert particles to curve like bezier or NURBS. Another issue is how can I born 1 particle per/frame in houdini? These are pretty beginner questions but I dont want to give up.. I want to learn new things because I see theres no limits in houdini Maybe someone could help me with this issue?

Example: I have 6 emitters which are emitting particles and some particles are born twice per frame even if there is born propability 1 and 1 so I assume that I get 1 particle per/emitter/frame is this correct. How I should build this so that I get particles to curves? I think first thing is to get the particle id:s in order

felixi

Tervetuloa!

A constant birth rate of $FPS does birth 1 per frame for me.
Impulse birth rate of 1 births one particle per cook, so I guess in
some cases it might be a bit off.

For the curve generation you could generate a line with as many points as you have particles, and then move the curve points to particles with $TX2 etc in a Point SOP (see attachment).

As usual with Houdini, there are probably many ways to skin a cat - Trail SOP might be worth a look as well.

eetu.

Simple scene , that might help

Rob

There's also a nice example similar to this on the ice cream thread on odforce.

http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=7902 [forums.odforce.net]

Look at the .hip file posted by aracid.

circusmonkey
Simple scene , that might help

Rob

A small typo in there, the group parameter in the popnet Source SOP
should be grp_points instead of group1..

That's what one gets for trying to make things more legible by renaming nodes..

eetu.

Fixed ….that's what happens when you work late

These are very nice examples. Thanks!

I will do some exploring and I try to get some results for my scene