I just tested it out, and wow, it's seriously impressive! The design is super smart and easy to use. Plus, it's free??? That's unbelievably cool of you, man. Thanks a ton!
@Dr.W.Krueger10 ай бұрын
Nice work. Reminds me a bit of the meta mesh / meta blob modeler we wrote at mental images during the late 80s.
@matvampir0_10 ай бұрын
Great, I'd love to move my rigid surfaces workflow directly into Houdini, and this is the answer! I'm looking forward to seeing you in Orbolt!
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
The final assets were just approved on Orbolt. Feel free to download them there, but I also packaged them on Github for convenience and to remove compatibility problems between versions: github.com/handcraftedcc/SDFModeler/releases/tag/Orbolt_v1.0
@matvampir0_9 ай бұрын
@@Handcraftedcc Hero!
@Handcraftedcc9 ай бұрын
There were some issues with the orbolt assets but the sidefx team ended up helping me out and you can download the hda version on github now too (under releases) @@matvampir0_
@matvampir0_9 ай бұрын
@@HandcraftedccThnx Mate! I will check it
@ChrisKania10 ай бұрын
Awesome tool. Looking forward to seeing how it works with the new quad remeshing sop.
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
For now it's not amazing. The quad remesher is not great at recognizing sharp edges. But i think they're working on that! I did get some reasonable results with exoside quadremesher though.
@carlosrivadulla890310 ай бұрын
This is one thing I asked for h20, a suite of nodes to encourage the use of SDF modeling
@SuperPhotoReal9 ай бұрын
Awesome tool set, thanks for sharing it with the community 🙌
@VFX4DESIGN4 ай бұрын
Amazing stuff. Thanks for sharing. I am looking forward to testing SDF Modeling Toolset in Houdini!
@AsirisC10 ай бұрын
Amazing tool. Please make more in-depth videos and especially about how to output as good mesh as possible. Thank you.
@Handcraftedcc9 ай бұрын
Yes! Been working on some different solutions! Will post something soon! Good to hear that people are interested!
@Handcraftedcc8 ай бұрын
Just released one! Sorry it took a while! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYqzgGCLmMtnb9Usi=CDqRIeN72FaVSZtO
@MetinSeven2 ай бұрын
Very nice! Will you also add SDF curves? That will make it more useful for organic modeling.
@jankrocak3 ай бұрын
Amazing tool! Thank you for sharing!
@XianJaxxon8 ай бұрын
That is a fantastic set of tools! Thanks Much!
@shingoeverard67446 ай бұрын
I've been playing around with this and having so much fun! Thank you for making this, and keeping it free/opensource. 1 question: how are you assigning/blending the colors from the teaser, for example the torus sinking in to the ground? Is there a way to assign colors to the SDFM primitives so that they retain colors after being converted to a mesh?
@Handcraftedcc4 ай бұрын
Heyo! Sorry for the delayed response! I assume you were the one that emailed me about this, but just in case I'll respond here too: What looks like colors blending in the teaser is actually just a shader setup, there are no separate colors for the meshes. Now if your meshes are separated you can use the segment option in the volume2mesh node. But if you have shapes combining that won't work. Also not sure if that would be stable in an animation. What you could try is to extract your source shapes using the prim to mesh node (I can't remember the actual name but there's one that will convert your control prims back to a usable mesh), apply color to that and then use a attrib transfer with a blend radius to transfer the colors onto the meshes model. No idea how clean that would look though.
@thehatchery425310 ай бұрын
This is amazing - can't wait to give it a try - thank you!
@NA81626 ай бұрын
Thanks agin for this hope you keep up the dev! x
@KediboneIsaacMakhumisaneАй бұрын
great work man, I'm a cinema4d user and I want add houdini to m toolkit as well
@zoranarizanovic10 ай бұрын
great tool , testing it now , thanks for sharing
@benlemoine7510 ай бұрын
That's really great ! thank you Dominik !
@CYTE214210 ай бұрын
Wow, thats cool! Thank You for making this!
@dvdgoldberg9 ай бұрын
this is sooo useful ! youre a hero !" thanks a bunch !!
@ManBro2510 ай бұрын
Cmon Houdini ! WTFFF HAHAHAHAHAHA YOU GUYS ARE MANIACS ❤
@makanansari1442 ай бұрын
Wow mind blowing!
@abdessamadelfetach9 ай бұрын
really helpful tool, also I like your video's keep going .
@madceee10 ай бұрын
amazing work 👍
@rponnie10 ай бұрын
Just brilliant, muchas gracias !!
@JasonIversen10 ай бұрын
Very cool! Nice work. Looking forward to playing with these tools. If Orbolt would alleviate the limited/indy license, that would be very attractive.
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Coming soon! :)
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
The final assets were just approved on Orbolt. Feel free to download them there, but I also packaged them on Github for convenience and to remove compatibility problems between versions: github.com/handcraftedcc/SDFModeler/releases/tag/Orbolt_v1.0
Thanks so much Dominik this rules! I did have a possible feature request - it would be great to get those Prims out as surfaces also ( before a convertline.) Just thinking for moving from the volume to refined hard surface would be good to have them to use as surface prims for hard-edged booleans etc. For instance say I've made an LED display screen, I have used SDFM to make the surround for the acrylic screen (using a box prim (A) to make a negative where the screen would be in SDFM) - if there was access to the surface geo of (A) I could then just have a screen surface geo to use already exactly in place...Hope that made sense...
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
That's a great idea! I think the easiest way to do so would be to create a node that converts the prims to surfaces! I'll look into it! :)
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Started working on this! Should have a version to release here soon!
@Handcraftedcc8 ай бұрын
Brand new release now has that option! Just make sure to update your nodes to the latest version, if you open an old project! The node is called Prim Convert 2 Polygons!
@NA81628 ай бұрын
@@Handcraftedcc Beautiful!
@artadecram_96248 ай бұрын
it looks cool! but don't yoou think that this voxle technology should be supported by nVidia on hardware level?
@Handcraftedcc8 ай бұрын
You could do cuda/opencl stuff on the GPU to make this faster, but that's a bit beyond what I'm capable of at this point. I might give the opencl thing another try at some point.
@vacstar10 ай бұрын
Amazing tool, great to have a little sdf toolkit in houdini. I wondered at the beginning of the video, if you could have a hook where we could add custom sdf function and have it as a sdf prim node. With the pig head example i guess that could be done using a volume wrangle or volume vop with an sdf prim node. Would that be efficient ? when you say that the one you propose are more efficient, is it because there are simple primitive like sphere or tube or because you did some specific optimization ?
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
I like the idea of custom functions, but I'm not sure that that would be easy or possible to implement without having to rewrite large parts of the toolset!
@abdessamadelfetach9 ай бұрын
I have a problem, I have 2 Houdini license, fx, and apprentice but the nodes just working on the apprentice
@Handcraftedcc8 ай бұрын
Make sure to download the version for all licenses under the github releases!
@sargstacker557910 ай бұрын
This is awesome! Dump question though. Is their any possibility of using the normals of an object and including those to shape the SDF when converting from polygons?
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Hmm I don't think there really is, at least not that I'm aware of! Generally if you can subdivide the mesh beforehand that's your best bet. One thing you can in theory do is transfer the normals back from your source mesh after converting the sdf to polygons. That can be finicky though, as you have to mask it to make sure that it won't affect the transitions or other areas that are different from the source mesh.
@BlackPantherElite10 ай бұрын
Looks great and something I would love to get into. Being a newbie in Houdini - what / how does this SDF toolset differ from already implemented Houdini nodes / features via vdb sdf ?
@Handcraftedcc8 ай бұрын
Houdini only ships with a very small set of sdf tools that are not tailored for sdf modeling, more for general sdf volume operations. Houdini does not have sdf math primitives nor does it have tools to create the smooth/chamfer transitions etc.
@BlackPantherElite8 ай бұрын
@@Handcraftedcc Ah I see, thanks for the information and your contributions!
@bram_gunst10 ай бұрын
INSANE
@YuuJer10 ай бұрын
this thing is awesome! I hope they make volumes for GPU so it can go faster! any plans for curve math shapes or something?
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Technically it's already possible (axiom for houdini is gpu powered for example). The issue is that for GPU you need to use opencl instead of vex, which is a very different challenge. Might try to tackle that at some point.
@YuuJer10 ай бұрын
@@Handcraftedccthat’s cool! I think I saw some opencl stuff for Houdini 20?
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Yeah they made some updates there! Will take a look at that soon @@YuuJer
@noc2_art10 ай бұрын
My goodness! This is just one killer tool you have created right there!! You have my utmost respect sir, and my appreciation. Thank you for this, can’t wait to give it a whirl!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍🫶🫶🫶🫶
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Thank you! Let me know if you have any questions! :)
@noc2_art10 ай бұрын
@@Handcraftedcc Hey Dom. I installed SDFM on my workstation at work on which we have a H19.5 fx installed. As soon as I dropped a node, Houdini converted my session to "Indie". Might this be because SDFM's HDA's have been saved out on that edition? Is there a way to remedy this? Cheers...
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
@@noc2_art yeah, its because I have the indie license. I will be uploading the toolset to orbolt in the next few days though, at which point it will be usable for all license types! I’ll let you know when it’s up!
@noc2_art10 ай бұрын
@@Handcraftedcc Awesome news! Thank you again Dom 🤗
@noc2_art10 ай бұрын
@@Handcraftedcc Hi Dom. I've seen 5 SDFM otl's on Orbolt. Was wondering if you're going to upload the other 3? (Can't wait 😋) Cheers :)
@luigir.17910 ай бұрын
Hi. Congratulations on the video, I don't understand step 3 of the installation. Replace "PATH/TO/PACKAGE/" with the path to the folder. In my case it reads: "C:/Users/Dominik/Documents/Houdini Assets/Project Packs/DomLib" Make sure to use "/" as separator, not "" otherwise it won't work.😅 Where should I edit this string? Thanks
@matvampir0_10 ай бұрын
I think it refers to the directory separator, Windows uses "\" but within the Json it should be changed to "/"
@wrvideo_tests10 ай бұрын
The file you need to edit is the SDFM.json file, and that should be placed in a folder called 'packages' which needs to be somewhere inside your Houdini preferences folder, which is in the top level of your Documents folder, (or Mac equivalent). I use a single packages folder but Houdini does seem to check -any- packages subfolders within the preferences folder structure. There's a Houdini preferences folder for each major version, named after that version, so it'll be houdini19.0 or houdini19.5 etc. You need to set the path in the SDFM.json file to the location of the SDFModeler folder, wherever you've put that. (FWIW, the environment variable for the preferences folder, which is $HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR, can be used in the path, and relative paths are supported so something like "$HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR/SDFModeler" would work if the plugin folder is dropped directly into the preferences folder, or "$HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR/../HoudiniPlugins/SDFModeler" if you had created a single location in your Documents folder -beside-, not in, the Houdini preferences folder, (and called it HoudiniPlugins)
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Yeah, like other said you want to update that in the .json file to point to the downloaded and unzipped folder and put that into your packages folder. If this is your first package, just create one. In windows that is normally documents/houdini19.5/packages.
@YuuJer10 ай бұрын
is there a way to say, merge 3 things, A B C, where they all overlap, like 3 balls in a triangle, but only A and B blend, and B and C blend, but A and C don't blend? like if you made fingers, but don't want them to blend to other fingers, but just to the palm
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Hmm you cam get to some degree by A: getting the order right. For example if you want the fingers to bot blend with each other but blend all the fingers with the hand, you can first add the fingers together and then add the palm after with your desired blend. B: use sub assemblies. So make an assembly with all your fingers and then merge the second output of that onto the palm. You can see an example of that workflow under the sub assemblies part of the video! That being said beyond those two methods you can't specifically say which part you want to blend with. Hope that answers your question!
@YuuJer10 ай бұрын
thanks! I'll give that a shot
@keithkirby737610 ай бұрын
any way to run geometry operations on the primitive shapes the SDFs use? seems like a useful idea to get more complex boolean shapes. i know we can use custom geometry but it would be even cooler to quickly tweak one of these primitives as you are building SDF forms.
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Heyo! I'm not sure I understand. What do you mean with geometry operations? Are you saying you would like to use stuff like the bend sop to edit the sdfm prims?
@keithkirby737610 ай бұрын
@@Handcraftedcc yes or even to point based polymodeling operations on them.
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Oh gotcha. So the "SDFM Prims" aren't based on polygons, like I describe around 1:33. The shapes you see when you select the SDFM Prim node are just previews of what the underlying math function generates. There is no way to modify those directly. That being said you can always use the SDFM Mesh prim to make custom shapes. Just note that it won't be as performant. @@keithkirby7376
@Spacedewelope9 ай бұрын
is the performance better than sdf in blender?
@Handcraftedcc8 ай бұрын
I haven't used the sdf tools in blender, so I can't really answer that question for certain. But I would say that a. This is not the most performant toolset as it runs on the cpu and uses volumes.
@sanescobar748910 ай бұрын
how about texturing those things? how UV map looks for it
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
The mesh you get out of sdfs is similar to what you might get when sculpting. So when it comes to UV unwrapping, there is no straight forward answer. You can retopo your mesh, and then uv unwrap nicely. Or you can use autouv or something similar and then paint your mesh manually in substance. Really depends on what you need and what your final goal is!
@anr3d10 ай бұрын
Hi Dom, Great tool. I just downloaded it but can't use it as it tries to change my Houdini License to limited commercial. Is there a fix or is it supposed to do that?
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Heyo! I imagine you probably have core or fx license? The version available via github is sadly only for indie license. I will share the toolset via orbolt in a few days, which should work with all licenses!
@luigir.17910 ай бұрын
@@Handcraftedcc Does THE tool not work with the No commercial Edition license?
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
@@luigir.179 you mean the apprentice version? Should work fine with that!
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
The final assets were just approved on Orbolt. Feel free to download them there, but I also packaged them on Github for convenience and to remove compatibility problems between versions: github.com/handcraftedcc/SDFModeler/releases/tag/Orbolt_v1.0
@fastlearner29210 ай бұрын
Is there a reason you used Houdini native volumes instead of Vdb?
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Yes! When doing A/B testing between VDB and Houdini Native Volumes the processing time of VDBs where significantly slower. There were also few to no benefits to be gained in terms of processing time as the vex code seems to also run over non-active voxels. In terms of storage VDBs are more efficient, but it's easy to just convert volumes back to vdbs for storage, however by default this is disabled, as the volumes to vdb conversion also is a hit on performance. The toolset running over big volumes is already heavy enough so I attempted to gain performance by any means necessary! I saw that H20 has made some improvements in terms of vex and vdbs, so it might be worth seeing if that changed anything.
@fastlearner2929 ай бұрын
I see, I thought vdbs would be much faster seeing how it worked under the hood. May just be a lack of implementation, anyways, thanks a lot for the tools, they are pretty good and useful
@sirrodneyffing110 ай бұрын
wow. I didn't know it had SDF. So is it like 'Ntop'?
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Yeah SDF is awesome! Not sure what Ntop is :)
@reasonsreasonably10 ай бұрын
In a way, nTop is obviously much more feature rich and the workflow of nTop is extremely unique. But yes SDF are similar in the general idea. nTop is a very professional software, and this is a 'simple' tool in comparison, so it's only like nTop in that it uses SDFs.
@ruben-dion10 ай бұрын
HellYEAHH!")
@winwinchester56910 ай бұрын
Does it work with Houdini FX, or only indie?
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Fx is coming soon through orbolt!
@winwinchester56910 ай бұрын
Sorry i missed it in the description, very nice tool btw@@Handcraftedcc
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
The final assets were just approved on Orbolt. Feel free to download them there, but I also packaged them on Github for convenience and to remove compatibility problems between versions: github.com/handcraftedcc/SDFModeler/releases/tag/Orbolt_v1.0
@TomCushwa10 ай бұрын
Does this work in H20?
@Handcraftedcc10 ай бұрын
Should! As far as I've tested it I have not run into any issues!
@dj_multiple_one10 ай бұрын
@@Handcraftedcc with quad remesh it would be good!