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Fill an Object with Spheres with Different Sizes without Overlapping Each Other

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ekim
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Hi guys,
I'm pretty new to Houdini and want to see if any knows how to fill an object with Spheres with different scale without overlapping each other.
Thanks in advance!!
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Konstantin Magnus
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Hi ekim,

you can fill objects with spheres by converting them to a volume (eg. VDBfrompolygons) and choose VDBtospheres.
Edited by Konstantin Magnus - May 10, 2018 14:10:32

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fill_obj_with_spheres.hiplc (218.5 KB)
obj_spheres.jpg (27.4 KB)

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WOW !!! That's exactly what I need.
It also has a check box to turn overlapping on and off.
Thank you, Konstantin Magnus!!!

Now, I want to replace these spheres with three other objects randomly with the scale of each sphere applied to those three objects.
Can you help me with this one, too??
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You can scale copies by adding a pscale attribute in VDBtospheres. The copy to points-node is accepting pscale to scale each copy accordingly.

You can assign varying copies with a for each loop (see attachment).

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