Attaching tentacles to another geo's points/edges

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Hi everyone! I'm a beginner in Houdini and I'm having a difficult time trying to attach tentacles of a jellyfish to its head.



I have the head made from revolving two curves and converting them to polygons. I then tried to group selected points and copying the tentacle polygon to the aforementioned points.

Is there another way that I can attach these tentacles so that they are attached to the head? Previously, I just had the tentacles revolve around a circle, but they only appeared to be attached to the head. I'm planning on exporting the finished polygon into Maya later on as well so I can't have any intercepting polys.

This is what I want, but in Houdini:




Thank you!
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that looks like it was extruded, which you could also do in houdini, just select all of the faces where you want tents attached, and extrude them smaller, then down down down.

you could also copy the tents on and then fuse the points, but i think this will be messy.

are you going to be running wire or cloth sims on them or anything?
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that looks like it was extruded, which you could also do in houdini, just select all of the faces where you want tents attached, and extrude them smaller, then down down down.

you could also copy the tents on and then fuse the points, but i think this will be messy.

are you going to be running wire or cloth sims on them or anything?

Yes! I wanted all the tentacles attached so that I can play around with cloth sims in Maya. I wanted to make the geo in Houdini so that I can easily alter it later on (and also to run sims in Houdini).
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