Selection Tool Symmetry Exist?

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Wren: Member; 532 posts; Joined: 7月 2005; オフライン

2017年4月3日 16:47

Maybe I use too many programs but I swore Houdini's Selection Tool had a symmetry mode…

Am I brain farting and can't find the option or does symmetrical selection not exist in Houdini 16?

Edited by Wren - 2017年4月3日 18:45:36

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Wren: Member; 532 posts; Joined: 7月 2005; オフライン

2017年4月4日 18:01

I'm guessing there is no symmetry/mirror option for the selection tool…sigh.

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eg_fxtd: Member; 13 posts; Joined: 3月 2016; オフライン

2017年6月15日 3:51

That would be a nice feature to add for 16.5 or so.


Andy_23: Member; 918 posts; Joined: 3月 2014; オフライン

2017年6月15日 18:14

I'm curious, what would you use it for?


matt_barker: Member; 14 posts; Joined: 4月 2019; オフライン

2019年6月23日 7:00

selecting UV seams in UVFlatten would be good.
I am transitioning from Maya for a lot of general 3d stuff, so I'm probably missing a lot of Houdini tricks I should know.


Wren: Member; 532 posts; Joined: 7月 2005; オフライン

2020年3月13日 21:43

I'm guessing the answer is still no in H18 as far as I can tell?

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vusta: Member; 555 posts; Joined: 2月 2017; オフライン

2020年3月14日 4:10

an extremely rudimentary proof of concept:

Attachments:
Capture.JPG (70.0 KB)
vu_symSelect.hipnc (231.3 KB)


Wren: Member; 532 posts; Joined: 7月 2005; オフライン

2020年3月17日 13:58

There are a bunch of probably interesting ways to mirror groups/attributes.

But it is still not not a substitute for symmetry mode for selection and a lame hassle.

Attachments:
maya_symmetry_selection.01.PNG (108.2 KB)

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toonafish: Member; 562 posts; Joined: 3月 2014; オフライン

2021年6月10日 16:00

Just ran into this issue, trying to get some modeling done in Houdini. And I must say, coming from XSI, modeling in Houdini is like painting your house with a toothpick.

Houdini is nice as a huge plugin for special fx, but for every day stuff it slows you down to a snails pace.

Lets hope basic stuff like this will get some attention soon.


schwungsau: Member; 31 posts; Joined: 12月 2012; オフライン

2021年6月14日 9:42

+1 on this !

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volodXYZ: Member; 12 posts; Joined: 10月 2020; オフライン

2021年11月20日 7:59


raincole: Member; 692 posts; Joined: 8月 2019; オフライン

2021年11月20日 8:51

In my opinion, selection should be treated as a temporary node. This way you can design your own "Expand/Shrink/Mirror/Whatever Selection" shelf tool. When you use another tool after selection, e.g. polyextrude, the temporary selection node "collapse" into polyextrude's group parameter. Similarly, you can restore the temporary selection node from any sop node's group parameter.

At least that's how I expect it works. Does it make sense? Is there a similar RFE?

Edited by raincole - 2021年11月20日 08:52:14


strangedays: Member; 11 posts; Joined: 3月 2021; オフライン

2021年12月12日 13:10

toonafish
Just ran into this issue, trying to get some modeling done in Houdini. And I must say, coming from XSI, modeling in Houdini is like painting your house with a toothpick.

Houdini is nice as a huge plugin for special fx, but for every day stuff it slows you down to a snails pace.

Lets hope basic stuff like this will get some attention soon.

I came here looking for a solution for this problem and this comment hit the nail on the head. Houdini is awesome but man, there are things that are maddening, especially when it comes to modeling tools.


pionasty: Member; 12 posts; Joined: 11月 2019; オフライン

2023年8月2日 10:36

You can use symetry of "attribute paint" tool and then use @mask "where mask is the name of the attribute you've created in attribute paint" to get the group of points like this "@mask > 1"


lok98382b172fad418a: Member; 2 posts; Joined: 1月 2022; オフライン

2023年11月19日 19:36

https://youtu.be/YoRt4QW75Jw?si=WKMBijF1-7RYpLrT [youtu.be]


toonafish: Member; 562 posts; Joined: 3月 2014; オフライン

2023年12月4日 14:09

Seems there's still no symmetry selection in H20.

Bump !!


raincole: Member; 692 posts; Joined: 8月 2019; オフライン

2025年4月17日 15:18

This really should have been a thing.

The only "topology-aware" mirror tool in Houdini is Attribute Mirror. It's useful for some fully procedurally modeling, but quite a headache if you just need to select some symmetrical part for a node's group parameter...


CYTE: Member; 802 posts; Joined: 2月 2017; オフライン

2025年4月17日 16:52

I know I sound like a broken record. But modeler features a selection symmetry.
Cheers
CYTE

Attachments:
Mirror.gif (4.7 MB)


raincole: Member; 692 posts; Joined: 8月 2019; オフライン

2025年4月17日 23:44

CYTE
I know I sound like a broken record. But modeler features a selection symmetry.
Cheers
CYTE

Wait, what sorcery is this? How could a plugin modify selection? Does Houdini expose selection in python API?

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