I am following along with a digital tutors video for Houdini 9.
It seems already a hit and miss in the video to have a usable mesh, then in the video they start to use metaballs instead of sphere's which gives a better result already. However in Houdini 14 I am not able to get similar results, I know about people complaining about the “lack of love” for the Boolean node.
Any hints and tips on how to make Booleans behave, because now it seems unusable for me, at least with the simple project from the tutorial.
Thanks a lot, Robert
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- Robert Glotzbach
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- Enivob
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I just ran into this and thought of your post. It is not really related to boolean but it does produce a slice of swiss cheese.
http://www.z-way.org/script-and-gizmo/houdini/isosurface/isoobject [z-way.org]
It uses a mathematical formula to produce the swiss cheese slice. You plug the formula into an iso_surface node.
http://www.z-way.org/script-and-gizmo/houdini/isosurface/isoobject [z-way.org]
It uses a mathematical formula to produce the swiss cheese slice. You plug the formula into an iso_surface node.
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try the vdb method
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qLib -- http://qlab.github.io/qLib/ [qlab.github.io]
qLib -- http://qlab.github.io/qLib/ [qlab.github.io]
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Some good places to go for tutorials:
I would start with the goprocedural stuff, it doesn't cost you anything and is more up-to-date. When I have been trying to learn, I found the tutorials for much older versions of Houdini just exasperating. So much has changed compared with the current version.
Thanks a lot Daniel, its actually a good advice and I started to go trough one of your suggested tutorials. I actually also found tutorials on DT for much recenter versions, so many places to pick from.
Regards, Robert
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Enivob
I just ran into this and thought of your post. It is not really related to boolean but it does produce a slice of swiss cheese.
http://www.z-way.org/script-and-gizmo/houdini/isosurface/isoobject [z-way.org]
It uses a mathematical formula to produce the swiss cheese slice. You plug the formula into an iso_surface node.
Thanks a lot Enivob.
Of course it was not so much about the ‘French cheese’ 8), but more about learning Houdini and its problems. But the link you posted is more then welcome to me. I will dive into to this stuff, just for fun. And of course open your file and see how its done
Kind regards, Robert
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mhh… a cheese boolean seems like something that the cookie SOP should be able to handle easily…. I certainly have done more complex stuff with it pretty reliably…
The only thing I would recommend is to simplify the mesh you are using as the “base” cheese (looks overly complex in your screenshot for what you are trying to do)
i.e. what happens if you create a triangle, extrude it, bevel it with a single span, then try to do the same boolean operation?
The only thing I would recommend is to simplify the mesh you are using as the “base” cheese (looks overly complex in your screenshot for what you are trying to do)
i.e. what happens if you create a triangle, extrude it, bevel it with a single span, then try to do the same boolean operation?
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