Sunday WiP of pipes, optimized and UV-mapped from just 1 curve.

Update, now I can copy stamp my subnetwork so it generates different patterns for each pipe. And it has become alot faster to generate the mesh

looks cool! Can't tell if they are interpenetrating or not, so I guess it's fine .

looks great and impressive

pclaes, Thanks ! Well actually there might be interpenetrating since the “lift” factor was random, but I have no improved it so it takes previous layer hight + radius, only downside to that is that they became alot thicker, so I put in a multipler factor because you dont realy see intterpenetration that much as long as it's somewhat above …*phew*

roughsporty, Thanks ! what impressed me the most is the render times I get with Mantra, last pic was renderd under 5min..and since then I've improved quality and render times are still very good ..so making a little movie clip

Realy impressive … and beautyfull images

yep ! , really cool and ala - houdini …

can you give us the possibility to observe ‘ from far ’ its logic ?

… any screenshot of network ?






.well done and cheers

yep, really impressive (as usual from you )
can we hope in a bit of tuto? It would be nice.

Thanks guy's ! I have put togeather a sample file, It should generate something that looks like the attached picture.

File was saved with 11.0.573

the sample file is a earlier version before I added more complexity and safe guards so it should be pretty straight forward ! except for my strange naming convention

It can be easily rebuild to use drawn curves to become the child pipes to, but I went for generating that too, meaning I can copystamp and get different pipes

Thanks for sharing. Will study this one very closely…

Lu-Tze, dont hesitate to ask if something is unclear !

And here is the promised video render!

http://vimeo.com/17858177 [vimeo.com]

Man this is amazing!
Thanks for the hip!

Thanks Magnus.
Houdini community is nice as usual

:!: :!: :!:

Pretty nice stuff!

Remind mine RnDs on past October…



But mine has an option “as vine”:

looks great. The colour selection is quite nice as well..

So Impressive and Also rendered perfectly , Specially I like red lights on the second image :wink:

This is fantastic. Thank you very much for sharing the file.

Wow this is an amazing work of art, thanks so much for the file!

Super cool!

Thanks for sharing!