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Hi, thanks! You mean like a simple waveform visualizer? yes it is totally possible. This visualizer would be just a slice running along the full waveform as the audio is played. you can create a flat line in sop and use its point indices to query chanel samples from chops. There is a small conversion you need to do: time to chop samples (considering your channel sample rate), so your sop line middle point stays exactly the current time sample being played and first/last points corresponds to the waveform slice you want to display. But it is super easy overall, I have a hip example somewhere in my pc. Will try and make a tutorial for it soon!

you might also like the first half of this video: czcams.com/video/cPCFy6iZyOs/video.html

no this would need a few tweaks to work in a multi tile case. Can't you just layout your current uvs to a single tile, just for the knit model, and optionally transfer back tiled uvs by proximity later?

Thanks and I'm glad it was of some help. Matrices seem a lot more difficult than they really are (for basic transform operations), I felt much more capable when it all "clicked" and once I understood how these conversions between vectors/quaternions/matrices work.

Hi, yes use copy to points now! And right before the copy to points node add a "orient along curve" node to make the links follow the curve direction.

Yeah, and to rotate the chain link need apply Roll or Twist inside the Copy to Curves Node. If try to use transform node like in the video now can be problematic I think.

Thanks a bunch for the pointers! I ended up downloading the HDA and taking it apart to see how everything works, got everything working now and running chain sims for days!!

You can Select the old sweep in Houdini! Window Top Toolbar -> Assets -> Asset Definition Toolbar -> SELECT show always. then in the Sweep Node Parameter Tab you can change to the old Node.

Francis you just saved my ass. Thank you so much! @@Francis-yc9nc

One way to do it is using packed geometry as bullet rbd pieces. Then you can set the "active" atribute of a piece to enable/disable it during the simulation. Since its just a regular point attribute, you can base the value off of the infection effect (via attribute transfer or whatever you like).

Hey, glad you have it working!! I'll double check the github version, but it seemed ok on my machine running Windows 10 with python 3.10.* Important note: MediaPipe does NOT support gpu inference on Windows! So the Linux version is far better in performance. =)

How did you get it working? I am facing the same problems as you had! :O

​@@chillsoftyou're running the shipped binary or the python file directly from Github repo?

The shipped one I suppose. I have the github one as well though, but both behave the same way! @@fabricio_chamon

Hey could you please retry? I just pushed an update. Same links as before.

Nowadays I'd just use less spheres with larger/intersecting radii, that should give you more stable links without increasing substeps too much. In any case, I'm curious to see the helix shape you are mentioning, as this approach should be robust enough to handle more than simple lines.

@fabricio_chamon Sorry i forgot this, i figured it out. it was just a silly error. when creating the curve shape and you have a large enough chainlink the link intersects from the start. stupid of me but yes, your solution works really good!

Put your material inside a material builder. On the material builder node, right click gear > edit parameter interface. Add a new "File - Image" parm, on the parm properties click "Built-in tags" button, search for "texture #", add that tag. Now load a texture on this new parm and it should display on the viewport. Alternatively, link this parm value with your original texture node to make everything dynamic.

@@fabricio_chamon brilliant i really appreciate you answering