Guys,
Is there any preset expression to find the distance between two points in a primitive. I want to find the distance between two points in a primitve. I guess there must be some preset expression to do it, but i am not able to find the right one in the help.

Regards,
nittin

Yo,

have you tried the “Measure SOP”? i don't use it exceedingly but read the help docs, try it. hehe.

eitht.

Hi eitht,
i have tried that i am not able to do that with measure SOP. Even the perimeter option in measure SOP is not able to do it.

Regards,
nittin

Have you tried with expressions?! Check the example file.

Cheers

.. and this version to justify the Measure SOP .




.cheers

here's quick and dirty measuring tool, kinda like Maya's

I love both methods of measuring the distance, but i'm leaning towards zarti's since i'm not an expression/function fanatic!

eitht.

Of course, but I suggest you make a move to learn some basic expressions cause it'll make your life really easy. Imagine you want to use the distance between 2 points to drive the scale of another object or the amount particles generated in a POP net… even with the measure SOP you'll still need a bit of expression writing to get that distance value outta there and procedurally into another node or attribute. Unless, of course, you just need to know the distance for your own sake.
I haven't gotten into python as it pertains houdini, so I still use a lot of Hscript expressions and all. If you want to learn more I found this series to be quite helpful:

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1500&Itemid=132 [sidefx.com]

cheers

Guys,
Thanks a lot for your help your examples helped me a lot in resolving my problem. Thank you so much

Regards,
nittin

You can find distance between two points using distance calculator [distancebetweencities.us], To calculate distance between two points Google maps are the best option. So, try Google maps.

You can find distance between two points using distance calculator, To calculate distance between two points Google maps are the best option. So, try Google maps.

CG DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!!!

or you can do it in Python:


node = hou.node('/obj/curve_object1/merge1')
geo = node.geometry()
point1 = geo.points()
point1.position()
<hou.Vector3 >
pos1 = point1.position()
pos1.distanceTo(geo.points().position())


regards,

Manuel

Here is an asset that I made that has an embedded OTL that will take any object and calculate the distance between two points that the user inputs and return a value. It will also create a line between those two points if you would like.

rafaels
here's quick and dirty measuring tool, kinda like Maya's

But what unit does it measure in? I imported it and it works fantastically, but when I altered the scene's default Unit, the numbers didn't change to reflect the new units…

It should be in whatever the default unit is… so if you altered the default unit to 1Km instead of the default metre, then you get the value in Kms.
Shouldn't be too hard to add controls to convert measurements, I might do that later on tonight

Cheers

rafaels
Of course, but I suggest you make a move to learn some basic expressions cause it'll make your life really easy. Imagine you want to use the distance between 2 points to drive the scale of another object or the amount particles generated in a POP net… even with the measure SOP you'll still need a bit of expression writing to get that distance value outta there and procedurally into another node or attribute. Unless, of course, you just need to know the distance for your own sake.
I haven't gotten into python as it pertains houdini, so I still use a lot of Hscript expressions and all. If you want to learn more I found this series to be quite helpful:

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1500&Itemid=132 [www.sidefx.com]

cheers

that link did not work. I just started learning Houdini, would this link be pertaining to expressions or python?