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tadian
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Does anyone know how to sharpen Heightfield Terrains? I would like to avoid sharpening the polygons. Curious if there's a way to do this on the voxel side of things.
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Hi,

You can perform an unsharp mask in VEX on a volume like this where the second input is the output of a HeightField Blur, using a Volume Wrangle SOP:

int index = nametoprim ( 1, chs("layer") );
float d = volumesample ( 1, index, @P );
@density += ( @density - d ) * ch("amount");
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tadian
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Wow, thank you. What are you inputing into the layer?
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tadian
Wow, thank you. What are you inputing into the layer?

height

This is inline with other HF SOPs that expects a layer name.

And make sure to bind height to density:

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Thank you so very much. This is awesome. I read up on the principles behind unsharp mask and not only does this work, but I understand it. Your explanation and graphic was very helpful.
Edited by tadian - March 27, 2023 21:43:20
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hi
thank you for your help.
is it okay to write it that way?

float d = volumesample(1,"height",@P);
@height += (@height - d)*ch("amount");

thank!
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yx042117
hi
thank you for your help.
is it okay to write it that way?

float d = volumesample(1,"height",@P);
@height += (@height - d)*ch("amount");

thank!

Yes that's valid as well.
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