CorbinMayne
2015年9月23日 03:01:29
Hey everyone,
Just wanted to post a new tool I developed which turns curves into braids, curls, dreadlocks, etc…
It accepts multiple curves, groups and animated curves (due to the reference frame calculations it performs)
Here is a video I posted showing what the tool can do and I quick guide on how to use it:
https://vimeo.com/140151898 [
vimeo.com]
I put a lot of hints and help in the tool so just hover over parameters to see what they do… Right now the help file doesn't contain much except for credits and a disclaimer but eventually I'll get around to adding some proper help there too…
Hope you enjoy it!
Let me know if you find bugs or have any improvements or questions or whatever…
Cheers
Corbin Mayne
PS. I hope this is the right thread to post this in???
pelos
2015年9月23日 11:54:35
very interesting stuff do you create a polygon at the top of the curve that can be use for using procedural hair?
CorbinMayne
2015年9月23日 12:38:06
Hi Pelos,
Thanks!
No I don't create a polygon to copy procedurally down the curve… I tried that at first but it ends up being very heavy…
I duplicate the curves and offset their points by a sin/cos wave (depending on whether the braids have even or odd number of strands)
Feel free to download the node and dive inside to see how I built it…
It's not actually that complex of a setup…
Hope you enjoy :-D
Corbin
CorbinMayne
2015年9月28日 06:07:46
Hi everyone,
Sorry, I only realised that because I uploaded the tool from my laptop I was uploading the non-commercial version…
Here is the commercial version for you
Enjoy,
Corbin
wharton
2015年9月29日 02:03:22
I'm amaze when you did the curve. Do you use commercial tool on that?
CorbinMayne
2015年9月29日 02:36:36
Hi wharton,
The tool was built in the commercial version of Houdini so it will work in either the commercial or the apprentice version… but the tools itself is not commercial - ie. its free to use so you can just click the download above, install the asset library in your Houdini and you've got the tool…
:-D Enjoy!
CorbinMayne
2015年10月4日 10:58:02
Hi everyone,
It was brought to my attention that some of the embedded otl files were incomplete definitions so I have fixed it and here is the new version…
Thank you to Sergey Oz for mentioning this!
Enjoy!
Corbin Mayne
mannyw
2021年10月9日 01:06:38
This tool is amazing, extremely helpful for grooming and many other uses, thank you!
TangheStudent
2022年1月8日 15:38:48
Annyone have a working verison of this ? When i try to open it i just get a blank file (what version was it created for ?)
abvfx
2022年2月22日 03:28:30
This tool has lost a lot of its functionality especially because of the new ramp UI.
Would love to get an update.
skittixch
2022年9月8日 22:07:58
So out of the box, this tool no longer works, but I figured out a simple workaround.
dive into
...Shape_Curves_Tool1/calculate_curve_vectors/reference_frames/compute_ref_frames
and change
for vtx_i in xrange(vtx_n):
to
for vtx_i in range(vtx_n):
it shows up in a few places, so searching for
, and replacing it with
seems to do the trick
Not sure if all the functionality is there, but so far so good!
Thanks for posting. Yep I got it working a couple months back, tracked down the issue.
Im sure not the first time there has been a python2 - 3 bug
davidooso99
2023年7月13日 11:02:50
abvfx
Thanks for posting. Yep I got it working a couple months back, tracked down the issue.
Im sure not the first time there has been a python2 - 3 bug
Hi do you think you could post the updated HDA with the bug fix? I'm a new
Houdini user and this tool is perfect for what I'm trying to create.
BenjiBe
2024年2月29日 07:27:13
davidooso99
Hi do you think you could post the updated HDA with the bug fix? I'm a new
Houdini user and this tool is perfect for what I'm trying to create.
Here !
I updated the xrange functions, but I didn't changed anything else !
All credits still belong to
Corbin Mayne, I simply fixed a bug.