Create 3D Shapes from COPernicus SDFs - Houdini Tutorial

[@mouhammadwasseemshaabani47]

Wow ... Please SIDEFX give this man a salary for what he is doing to introduce the programs ability to us ... Thank you Konstantin

[@khomatech0]

wow, Zbrush Shadowbox in Houdini. killer work as always!

[@GregBollella]

Wow! Thanks so much! I am working on creating some plant leaves that have to be two-sided and I have only textures to start with. The alpha can, of course, cut out the shape from a thin box but leaves the two sides unconnected. With this technique I can get a closed geometry in the proper shape quickly!

[@KonstantinMagnus]

Awesome! That's a great use case!

[@whocares6302]

thank you Konstantin! such a stellar tutorial as always (haven't even seen it yet ) - but I really want to appreciate what you provide.

[@PawelGrzelak]

Always some extra spice in your tuts. In this one - smoothing function, great little addition.

[@KonstantinMagnus]

Thank you Pawel! And greetings!

[@3D_GO]

Well that was pretty awesome. Quad remesh, autoUV and back into cops to add even more texture details back on top.

[@TaekOhFX]

Mindblowing!

[@Wichenroder]

love it!

[@AlanGordieJr]

That's hot dude!!

[@yesthatsam]

Thanks for this overview. Super clear as usual. I don’t know if that’s the OSX handling of OpenCL but my COP network shapes do not display as yours… They’re juste black on white. Any ideas ?

[@KonstantinMagnus]

Hi, I think I had similar issues. It might well be a bug.

[@yesthatsam]

@@KonstantinMagnus i’m on 20.5.332 on a M2 Max machine. Didn’t find anything on the doc. Will hail SideFX support to let them know.

[@yabadub]

fantastic, if rather than SDFshapes nodes one would want to use textures is there a way in COPernicus to turn raster data into SDFs?

[@KonstantinMagnus]

yes, i should have mentioned: the mono-to-sdf node does this job.

[@cosmosunited]

this is amazing, what about doing it from custom image maps, svg's etc.

[@KonstantinMagnus]

Hi cosmosunited, for converting greyscale images there is a mono-to-SDF node inside COPs.

[@cosmosunited]

@@KonstantinMagnus oh wow awesome! I will try this right away! thank you!