I having a ton of trouble getting my head around this, I have a python sop, that is creating my point cloud.
Im giving is a postition & scale, those work correctly, but the orient is not.
In the attribute spread sheet, i can see the 3 params for the orient, all have values.
I simplified the code to include some transforms, originally they are coming from some worldspace maya transforms, but to confirm i wasnt going crazy i took a few from the moana island data set.
C:/leaf.obj , is a leaf geometry, but i have tried with a grid that is scales to be a rectangle.
node = hou.pwd() geo = node.geometry() pivot = {0,0,0} v3 = hou.Vector3 (1,0,0) m = hou.Matrix4() geo.addAttrib(hou.attribType.Point, "orient",v3) geo.addAttrib(hou.attribType.Point, "pscale",1.0) geo.addAttrib(hou.attribType.Point, "instancefile", "") # some test ws xforms transforms = [ [ 0.9476891756057739, -0.3092913031578064, 0.07889299094676971, 0.0, -0.06873862445354462, 0.043607283383607864, 0.9966812133789062, 0.0, -0.3117051422595978, -0.9499669671058655, 0.02006589248776436, 0.0, 50.91556930541992, 113.11812591552734, -17.59348487854004, 1.0 ], [ 0.011039327830076218, -0.2005908042192459, 0.7990818023681641, 0.0, -0.4085596799850464, 0.6926376819610596, 0.17951379716396332, 0.0, -0.7154367566108704, -0.39863455295562744, -0.09018410742282867, 0.0, 95.37860107421875, 94.6856689453125, -21.098573684692383, 1.0 ], [ -0.7893863320350647, 0.09577027708292007, -0.10461504757404327, 0.0, 0.11940404027700424, 0.7679983973503113, -0.1979062259197235, 0.0, 0.07654441148042679, -0.2103620171546936, -0.7701525092124939, 0.0, 178.22116088867188, 64.501220703125, 24.868995666503906, 1.0 ], [ -0.16089898347854614, 0.0215655155479908, -0.6914180517196655, 0.0, 0.16879704594612122, 0.6896406412124634, -0.017770059406757355, 0.0, 0.6708438992500305, -0.16835418343544006, -0.16136221587657928, 0.0, 134.9632568359375, 138.3452911376953, 109.56019592285156, 1.0 ], [ 0.12487196922302246, -0.0351731963455677, -0.7897642850875854, 0.0, 0.36846989393234253, 0.709984540939331, 0.026640724390745163, 0.0, 0.6994245052337646, -0.3677535653114319, 0.1269664615392685, 0.0, 82.2651596069336, 77.03775787353516, 112.33985137939453, 1.0 ], ] for world_space in transforms: m4 = hou.Matrix4(world_space) point = geo.createPoint() if point != None: # get the point location point.setPosition(m4.extractTranslates('srt')) # get its orient point.setAttribValue("orient", m4.extractRotates('srt')) #print m4.extractRotates('srt') i can see that this is different # get the uniform scale point.setAttribValue("pscale", (sum(m4.extractScales('srt')))/3.0) # set the leaf file point.setAttribValue("instancefile", "C:/leaf.obj")
Once this executes, i can see my leaves, positioned and scaled in the scene view, but they have no rotation
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If someone can point me in the right direction would be fantastic.
Cheers
Kym