PaddingtonBear

Thank you so much! That's fantastic

I had no idea that hou.Polygon was derived from hou.Face, or that to call .addVertex I had to pass it a previously created point object

You've seriously saved my ass! This is fantastic

Thanks again,
Paddington

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the replies. Perhaps I should have been clear earlier, I am fully intending to write a python SOP using my algorithm , meaning the previously mentioned methods are available to me.

The problem I was having was how to use the hou.Geometry.createPolygon() and hou.Face.addVertex() methods. I'm still fairly new to python, and so I'm not sure how I can call these and specify where the points for that face are located, and how many there are. I'm guessing I need to create a polygon, and then add vertices to the polygon - but is there a difference between a polygon object and a face object? Or once I've created a polygon will I have the addVertex method available to me?

The example for geo.createPoint() given by mtucker is fantastic, and shows very clearly how to create and move points - any chance of a similar example (it can be just as simple) to show how to call and use the other methods?

I really appreciate the replies so far, and if anyone can clear up my last couple of queries I'd be extremely grateful.

Cheers!
Paddington

That sucks :roll:

Can the developers confirm if it is indeed possible to create polygonal geometry using python? I guess I'll have to use the HDK if not, but I was really hoping to avoid this option because I'd have to recompile etc. for new versions of Houdini, which I wouldn't need to do if I implemented it using python

Paddington