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Cyzor: Member; 181 posts; Joined: Feb. 2013; Offline

Nov. 28, 2017 12:49 a.m.

I haven't tried the latest branch yet, but mesh self-intersection can also happen in the standalone Instant Meshes application in some circumstances.

Disabling “pure quad mesh” (the quad dominant flag that Luiz mentions) fixes it, but at the expense of allowing N-gons.

# Build Instant Meshes Commandline
cmd = [instant_meshes]
cmd.append("-D")
cmd.append("-f")
cmd.append(numPolys)
cmd.append("-o")
cmd.append(out_path)    
cmd.append(in_path)

Attachments:
overlap.png (215.5 KB)


Tomasz Dabert: Member; 11 posts; Joined: Oct. 2015; Offline

Nov. 30, 2017 3:41 a.m.

lkruel
Hey guys,

Can someone send me one of those files that are erroring out? I haven't been able to reproduce it.

You can try hitting Clear Cache and seeing if the problem goes away. I'm wondering if that's an issue with loading the OBJs back in from IM or something that they're generating.

I've also pushed an update to the Development branch that adds the Quad Dominant option and control over the Crease Angle.

Hi!

I am attaching the bugged file. I have updated the tool to the latest one but it didn't help

Cheers!

Tomasz

Attachments:
InstantMesh_bug.hiplc (60.8 KB)


anon_user_92319640: Member; 4 posts; Joined: March 2013; Offline

Dec. 24, 2017 5:47 p.m.

Hello! Big thanks for this tool
but I have an error

Attachments:
2017-12-24_14-46-52.png (60.5 KB)


_Christopher_: Member; 767 posts; Joined: April 2014; Offline

Dec. 24, 2017 8:45 p.m.

Has the overlap issue been fixed ? Instant Meshes is already part of Modo but I'd love to paint areas that I want to re-topologize manually as so those areas are deleted automatically for edge flow etc ?

【T】【C】【S】


Octop: Member; 13 posts; Joined: Oct. 2013; Offline

Jan. 17, 2018 4:39 a.m.

I know you can paint a direction flow in the stand alone application.
Would it be possible to use Houdini attributes to act as those guides, so you can use the comb node for more control?


goldleaf: Staff; 4200 posts; Joined: Sept. 2007; Online

Jan. 18, 2018 12:38 p.m.

Octop
I know you can paint a direction flow in the stand alone application.
Would it be possible to use Houdini attributes to act as those guides, so you can use the comb node for more control?

Unfortunately, this HDA is at the mercy of the commandline options exposed by the instant meshes tool. The curve/painting tools are all interactive parts of the GUI, so we can't currently add them in.

I'm o.d.d.


rayfoundry: Member; 15 posts; Joined: June 2016; Offline

Feb. 5, 2018 2:49 p.m.

Christopher_R
Has the overlap issue been fixed ? Instant Meshes is already part of Modo but I'd love to paint areas that I want to re-topologize manually as so those areas are deleted automatically for edge flow etc ?

Interesting. Do you have a reference (link) somewhere that they included/licensed InstantMeshes in Modo?


Cyzor: Member; 181 posts; Joined: Feb. 2013; Offline

Feb. 6, 2018 2:42 p.m.

Doesn't seem to be listed in the credits, but references can be found elsewhere:

04 July 2017

Since version 10.2, Modo uses our Instant Meshes algorithm to implement its automatic retopology feature! The Foundry just released an interview with Wenzel Jakob [www.foundry.com] (PDF) about this technique and other recent projects in this area.

http://rgl.epfl.ch [rgl.epfl.ch]


flippingbook: Member; 14 posts; Joined: March 2018; Offline

March 2, 2018 6:20 a.m.

lkruel
Hey everybody,

I put together a quick little SOP that lets you call instant meshes from inside Houdini.

For those that don't know, instant meshes is a really cool open source software that does a great job with quad remeshing.

https://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes [github.com]

Looks great! Will definitely have a look at instant meshes


flippingbook: Member; 14 posts; Joined: March 2018; Offline

March 2, 2018 6:20 a.m.

lkruel
Hey everybody,

I put together a quick little SOP that lets you call instant meshes from inside Houdini.

For those that don't know, instant meshes is a really cool open source software that does a great job with quad remeshing.

https://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes [github.com]

Looks great! Will definitely have a look at instant meshes


Konstantin Magnus: Member; 686 posts; Joined: Sept. 2013; Offline

March 12, 2018 4:03 p.m.

Cool tool, I get an error, though, in Houdini 16.5.378 on Mac OS 10.13.3:
Instant Meshes location: $HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR/Instant Meshes.app/Contents/MacOS/Instant Meshes

Invalid source /obj/geo1/sop_instant_meshes1/python1
Error: Python error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 41, in
File “/Applications/Houdini/Houdini16.5.378/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/16.5.378/Resources/houdini/python2.7libs/hou.py”, line 25010, in loadFromFile
return _hou.Geometry_loadFromFile(*args)
OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.
Could not read from the specified file
.
Invalid source /obj/geo1/sop_instant_meshes1/python1
Error: Python error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 41, in
File “/Applications/Houdini/Houdini16.5.378/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/16.5.378/Resources/houdini/python2.7libs/hou.py”, line 25010, in loadFromFile
return _hou.Geometry_loadFromFile(*args)
OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.
Could not read from the specified file
.

Edited by Konstantin Magnus - March 12, 2018 16:47:40

https://procegen.konstantinmagnus.de/ [procegen.konstantinmagnus.de]


tmishler: Member; 11 posts; Joined: Nov. 2017; Offline

March 22, 2018 5:06 p.m.

Konstantin Magnus
Cool tool, I get an error, though, in Houdini 16.5.378 on Mac OS 10.13.3:
Instant Meshes location: $HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR/Instant Meshes.app/Contents/MacOS/Instant Meshes

Invalid source /obj/geo1/sop_instant_meshes1/python1
Error: Python error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 41, in
File “/Applications/Houdini/Houdini16.5.378/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/16.5.378/Resources/houdini/python2.7libs/hou.py”, line 25010, in loadFromFile
return _hou.Geometry_loadFromFile(*args)
OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.
Could not read from the specified file
.
Invalid source /obj/geo1/sop_instant_meshes1/python1
Error: Python error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 41, in
File “/Applications/Houdini/Houdini16.5.378/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/16.5.378/Resources/houdini/python2.7libs/hou.py”, line 25010, in loadFromFile
return _hou.Geometry_loadFromFile(*args)
OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.
Could not read from the specified file
.

I'm getting an error too, except mine is a touch different (line 38 instead of 41 for me) Windows 10:

Error
Invalid source /obj/geo/sop_instant_meshes1/python1
Error: Python error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 38, in
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 524, in call
return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 711, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 948, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: The system cannot find the file specified
.
Invalid source /obj/BP_rubblemaker/bricksmesh/sop_instant_meshes1/python1
Error: Python error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 38, in
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 524, in call
return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 711, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 948, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: The system cannot find the file specified
.


tmishler: Member; 11 posts; Joined: Nov. 2017; Offline

April 3, 2018 11:12 a.m.

tmishler
Konstantin Magnus
Cool tool, I get an error, though, in Houdini 16.5.378 on Mac OS 10.13.3:
Instant Meshes location: $HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR/Instant Meshes.app/Contents/MacOS/Instant Meshes

Invalid source /obj/geo1/sop_instant_meshes1/python1
Error: Python error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 41, in
File “/Applications/Houdini/Houdini16.5.378/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/16.5.378/Resources/houdini/python2.7libs/hou.py”, line 25010, in loadFromFile
return _hou.Geometry_loadFromFile(*args)
OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.
Could not read from the specified file
.
Invalid source /obj/geo1/sop_instant_meshes1/python1
Error: Python error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 41, in
File “/Applications/Houdini/Houdini16.5.378/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/16.5.378/Resources/houdini/python2.7libs/hou.py”, line 25010, in loadFromFile
return _hou.Geometry_loadFromFile(*args)
OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.
Could not read from the specified file
.

I'm getting an error too, except mine is a touch different (line 38 instead of 41 for me) Windows 10:

Error
Invalid source /obj/geo/sop_instant_meshes1/python1
Error: Python error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 38, in
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 524, in call
return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 711, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 948, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: The system cannot find the file specified
.
Invalid source /obj/BP_rubblemaker/bricksmesh/sop_instant_meshes1/python1
Error: Python error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 38, in
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 524, in call
return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 711, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.378\python27\lib\subprocess.py”, line 948, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: The system cannot find the file specified
.

No longer an issue for me.


Konstantin Magnus: Member; 686 posts; Joined: Sept. 2013; Offline

April 4, 2018 3:04 p.m.

tmishler
No longer an issue for me.

How did you solve it? And you are on Windows right?

https://procegen.konstantinmagnus.de/ [procegen.konstantinmagnus.de]


Andr1: Member; 118 posts; Joined: Feb. 2016; Offline

April 18, 2018 6:48 p.m.

Hello, has anybody ever experienced this issue of instameshes producing holes in the geometry?
Cheers

Edited by Andr1 - April 18, 2018 18:50:21


lkruel: Member; 240 posts; Joined: Nov. 2012; Offline

April 18, 2018 7:38 p.m.

Yeah, it has a hard time with thin edges… You can try increasing your resolution, sometimes it helps

Luiz

Luiz Kruel
Senior Technical Artist
SideFX


alperenozgur: Member; 16 posts; Joined: April 2018; Offline

April 30, 2018 1:41 a.m.

Konstantin Magnus
tmishler
No longer an issue for me.
How did you solve it? And you are on Windows right?

i get the same python error always too. any update on that?


serjan_biogenic: Member; 3 posts; Joined: Oct. 2012; Offline

May 24, 2018 3:27 p.m.

Same error like everyone else, any solution?


zrjacobs1985: Member; 3 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

July 20, 2018 10:45 a.m.

alperenozgur
Konstantin Magnus
tmishler
No longer an issue for me.
How did you solve it? And you are on Windows right?

i get the same python error always too. any update on that?

I have this issue as well.


AlexanderM: Member; 3 posts; Joined: March 2012; Offline

Sept. 16, 2018 6:08 a.m.

It would be better to make Core-node instead bridge. I made it for Fabric Engine years earlier, it was easy https://vimeo.com/199342334 [vimeo.com]

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