Hi ..

I'm trying to find a way how I can do the following:

I have a wooden board which comes into Houdini any way rotated, as an .obj file.

Now, I'd like to take the oriented bounding box for this board and scale along the OBB's longest dimension.

How would I do this ?

Any input welcome !

Matt

It's easy in SOPs:
Get oriented bbox, measure length of 3 orthogonal edges, choose longest one, set it as axis for Transform Axis SOP and scale as you want.

Look at example

hey !

thanks for the input. this does exactly what I need. very cool !

but the expression with the prim() to check which edge is the longest .. I don't understand it's logic because it's somewhat nested code. can you explain that code ?

thanks again .. !

deadalvs
I don't understand it's logic because it's somewhat nested code. can you explain that code ?

Than write it down differently. Paste this in the “select_axis” node.

{
p0 = prim(“../measure_edges”,0,“edge_length”,0);
p1 = prim(“../measure_edges”,1,“edge_length”,0);
p2 = prim(“../measure_edges”,2,“edge_length”,0);

myval = 0;

if (p0 > p1)
{
if (p0 > p2) myval = 0;
else myval = 2;
}
else
{
if (p1 > p2) myval = 1;
else myval = 2;
}

return myval;
}


Better?

I hate writing long expressions in one line. You can write multiline expressions in hscript, so use this possibility.

hey !

much better readable..

thank you !!

matt