Applying Scales to Mesh Surfaces - Houdini Tutorial

[@KonstantinMagnus]

Follow up tutorial on how to model the scale element: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWO8hGyLntiar5o

[@DemShion]

The feeling of finding a great youtube channel for learning, has to be one of the best. Thanks.

[@velcrolog]

I came to see the scales technique, but really enjoyed the other simple tips on setting up the geometry: clean, polyreduce, matchsize etc. This is why it is great to see all the steps in a tutorial as you learn a lot of secondary tricks, taken for granted by advanced users. Thanks and keep them coming!

[@ChrisC1377]

Yes completely agree, very nice tutorial

[@Gichanasa]

Short, to the point, with many bonus techniques. You are a great teacher, please keep up the good work!

[@stephanwalsch]

a lot of neat effective techniques in here like the pscale from remesh or just getting a gradient from P. Loved it!

[@nelsonlim379]

I enjoyed the tips on the remesh node here. Thanks Konstantin!

[@mouhammadwasseemshaabani47]

For Konstantin Magnus tutorials always like first then watch ,cause it is always great videos , keep up

[@mzigaib]

This is really useful, thanks a lot!

[@donkastudio714]

Excellent tutorial

[@simonfarussell]

Excellent stuff!

[@danialghods]

Thanks for the technique Konstantin

[@alexmaeki]

Thank you for making so great content! Helps me a lot on my Houdini journey🙏

[@massimobaita7178]

Thank You very much, Konstantin!

[@KonstantinMagnus]

Thank you for watching, Massimo!

[@OnyxDigitalStudios]

wow great tutorial :) this is almost exactly what i was looking for, the only difference is i need to be able to define the direction of the scales a little better, is there some way to paint the direction the scale will point ??

[@KonstantinMagnus]

Hi Onyx! I think the "attribute paint" node can do this.

[@ribponce]

Great video, thanks!

[@WillPreston3D]

thanks so much Konstantin, this is brilliant, do you know if there's a way to paint the direction flow of the scales? so that painting red aligns scales with X axis, painting Green makes them face down Y etc?

[@KonstantinMagnus]

Hi Will, you could paint some red color on your mesh and append two measure nodes: - the first one measures the gradient of P's X component and exports and attribute named up_x - the second one measures the Y component and exports an attribute up_y -Then a point wrangle blends both up directions based on the amount of red color like this: vector4 q_x = quaternion(maketransform(v@N, v@up_x)); vector4 q_y = quaternion(maketransform(v@N, v@up_y)); p@orient = slerp(q_x, q_y, v@Cd.r); Also I recommend this course if you want more control: www.udemy.com/course/in-house-tool-building-for-tds/

[@NLbeta]

really nice technique.

[@KonstantinMagnus]

Thank you Nelson!

[@oneday7922]

Hi, is the remesh output property meshsize an area? How is it calculated, I watched your video here confused for half a day.

[@gaks-studio]

its possible to paint the attribute for chosing where is small or not ?

[@KonstantinMagnus]

Yes, I think so. The attribute paint node can be combined with the remesh node: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJWlnoyIm7h8rdksi=z3meNEafBeDosSVN

[@mihamorozan352]

Thank you!!! Cool! :-)

[@antoniopepe]

Great, i never used Measure Node in gradation mode. great tips ;) its the same than make a cross product between the normal and and up vector (0,1,0) ? but with minor effort :)

[@robko75]

Instead of measure node you can use VEX and double-cross the vectors like this: vector tmp = cross(@N, {0,-1,0}); @up = cross(@N, tmp); Nevertheless: Awesome stuff and inspiring :-)

[@KonstantinMagnus]

Thank you, Robert! I have avoided VEX in this tutorial to make it easier for beginners. If you want to use it anyway, I would suggest normalizing the cross product at least once: vector perp = normalize(cross(v@N, {0,-1,0})); v@up = cross(v@N, perp);

[@jamepathompong]

When the main model has animation What should I do to keep the scales from moving?

[@KonstantinMagnus]

The attribute interpolate node makes points stick to mesh surfaces.

[@RusticRaver]

yeah