Hi all,
I'm deforming a bunch of points along some wires, and I wanted this to be procedural, but I cannot find a way to automatically capture the points.

Is there a way?

I logged this as:

RFE: VEX based wire capture SOPs

The parameters could be driven by attributes. That would make a much better and faster workflow.

Thanks pusat,
At least I'm not missing something obvious. Shame ti can't be done currently…it's very non-procedural in it's current state.

As a side question: is it possible for me to see the RFE you logged? I can't find a way to view existing submission.

i don't know if it's for you helpful but you can get access to the parameter with python.


# Adjust the path to the wirecapture node
obj = hou.node('/obj/geo1/wirecapture1')
obj.setParms({“numprims”:2})
obj.setParms({“u0radius1”:0.2})
obj.setParms({“u1radius2”:0.8})

Anti-Distinctlyminty
Thanks pusat,
At least I'm not missing something obvious. Shame ti can't be done currently…it's very non-procedural in it's current state.

As a side question: is it possible for me to see the RFE you logged? I can't find a way to view existing submission.

No there is no way to do that either. I and some other users asked SESI to make the RFE database public before. It would be beneficial.

A VEX solution to the WireCapture/WireDeform problem would be pretty amazing. It would pick up all these attributes like width, etc (that can be specified by name in the SOPs). I think the current workflow after you get the wire simulation is not very optimal.

Ah, shame I can't add my voice to your RFE.

Thanks for the Pyhon code mandrake0 - however, it would be grand to have the wire capture Houdini-ized as pusat mentioned.

Update:
Although you cannot seemingly do this using point attributes, I was after a very simple solution of applying the same value to all wires - which you can do by leaving the Primitive field blank in the Wire Capture node. Then it seems to apply the settings to all wire points.

Anti-Distinctlyminty
Ah, shame I can't add my voice to your RFE.

new RFEs are checked against the DB and if you add something that is already there your RFE is made a duplicate and you are added to to existing RFE… setting aside human error

so there is no harm in adding the RFE…

Any updates or workarounds available on this?

wlvl_yfx
Any updates or workarounds available on this?

Roll your own using prim intersection coordinates and building the matrix using the curve frame.

There's the Capture Attribute Unpack/Pack SOPs now so it opens it for manipulation with VEX.

Hi,

here is an older experimental example using this capture pack sop. You can capture your geometry by a curve using xyzdist() for example and set weight / u attributes using ramps, other attributes or whatever and put them back into a vector (array). The pack sop is doing the rest for you.