Extracting curves from objects

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Orange_Juice: Member; 1 posts; Joined: March 2019; Offline

March 2, 2019 11:33 a.m.

Hi,

Super new to houdini etc…

I'm trying to figure out how to extract curves from an object similarly to the functions within maya and rhino, any help would be swell.

Cheers


mrCatfish: Member; 738 posts; Joined: Dec. 2006; Offline

March 4, 2019 5:29 p.m.

If it's nurbs, (or can be converted to nurbs), use a carve sop with extract turned on.

Sean Lewkiw
CG Supervisor
Machine FX - Cinesite MTL


Houdini_Zero: Member; 12 posts; Joined: Nov. 2018; Offline

March 6, 2019 6:11 a.m.

I wrote a similar HDA, hope it helps. check this out
https://youtu.be/_0_ZnD-iusE [youtu.be]


CYTE: Member; 802 posts; Joined: Feb. 2017; Offline

March 8, 2019 4:18 a.m.

There is also a tool in the game dev tools called:
Edge Group to Curve

Cheers
CYTE

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