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Ocean Evaluate 2.0 geometry node

Deforms input geometry based on ocean "spectrum" volumes.

This node uses volumes generated by one or more Ocean Spectrum nodes Merged together and connected to the second input to deform geometry in the first input. If multiple ocean spectra are input, their waves will be added together during evaluation, possibly modified by any mask or noise parameters on each input Ocean Spectrum layer.

Parameters

Time

The time at which to evaluate the ocean surface.

Downsample

Downsample the incoming ocean spectra before evaluating any ocean values. This parameter specifies the number of powers of two to remove from the resolution of the incoming ocean spectrum. For example, if the spectrum was originally specified at resolution 10 to generate a 1024 x 1024 volume, downsampling by 2 will evaluate ocean volumes at resolution 8, a 256 x 256 volume.

Tip

The same high resolution spectrum can be processed by multiple Ocean Evaluate nodes, for example one with no downsampling to deform surface geometry, and another at a downsampled resolution to generate the more expensive volume or point output.

Max Resolution

Downsample the incoming ocean spectra to the specified maximum resolution before evaluating any ocean values. This parameter is useful to avoid evaluation of very high-resolution spectra when only requiring simulation data, for example. It can also be more convenient than the Downsample parameter when there are multiple incoming spectra of different resolutions.

Depth Falloff

Specifies how deformation and velocity values falloff as the input points lie below the ocean surface. This value also controls the rank of the calculation volumes that are output if Rest Displacement or Rest Velocity is enabled: 2D if falloff is None but 3D otherwise.

None

Values do not falloff below the surface.

Exponential

All values have the same exponential falloff below the surface.

Exponential by Frequency

Values have an exponential falloff that is scaled per wave frequency. With this setting the contribution from small, high frequency waves falls off very quickly. It is the most accurate setting and most expensive to compute.

Falloff Scale

An additional scale applied to the exponential falloff modes in Depth Falloff. For the most physically accurate values this should be set to 1 in conjunction with the Exponential by Frequency mode.

Max Depth

The maximum depth for the evaluated ocean volumes. All input positions deeper than this value will be clamped before sampling the ocean values.

Depth Divisions

The number of divisions along the depth axis if the computed ocean are 3D, as specified by the Depth Falloff parameter. Higher values are more accurate but more expensive to calculate.

Solo Layer

If multiple ocean spectra are input to this node, limit the evaluation to the specified layer.

Geometry

Deform Input Geometry

Deform the input geometry by the calculated ocean deformations.

Preview Grid

Output a deformed grid exactly the size of the underlying ocean volume. This preview grid is fastest to evaluate and provides a simple way to view the deforming ocean surface.

Point Velocity

Add a velocity point attribute to the output geometry.

UV Attribute

Add a uv attribute to the output geometry that can be used for texture lookups into the texture maps created with the Export to Texture tab. If Bake All Displacements to One Layer is disabled on that tab and there are multiple Ocean Spectrum layers input to this node, then each layer will get a separate uv attribute. If Bake All Displacements to One Layer is enabled, only one layer of uv attribute is assigned to the input geometry via a planar projection over the entire input geometry.

Cusp Attribute

Add a cusp point attribute to the output geometry that represents the sharpness of the wave peaks at any point, with values ranging from below 0 if the wave is stretched out, to greater than 1 if the wave peak is so sharp it has inverted.

Cusp Direction Attribute

Add a cuspdir vector point attribute to the output geometry that points in the direction of the wave peaks.

Visualize Cusp

Visualize the cusp attribute by color.

Attribute Ramp

The color ramp with which to visualize the cusp attribute.

Volumes

Surface SDF

Generate a surface SDF volume of the specified size and resolution.

Height Field

Generate a height 2-D volume containing the wave height in each voxel. This output can be manipulated using the HeightField family of SOPs.

Method

The method used for generating the surface and height volumes. Point Sampling is less accurate, but also uses less memory and processing time. Projection is more accurate, but at high resolutions can use a large amount of memory and processing time.

Surface Depth

The Surface SDF will represent the ocean at the specified depth. This differs from simply offsetting the output surface SDF as it takes into account the Depth Falloff setting.

Smoothing

Controls the radius of the points used to generate volumes when Method is set to Point Sampling. Higher values are more expensive, but give smoother volumes.

Velocity

Generate a vel velocity volume of the specified size and resolution.

Size

The size of the generated volumes.

Center

The origin of the generated volumes.

Uniform Sampling

It is often advantageous to make sure voxels in a volume are cubes. This option allows the resolution of the volume to be specified without having to worry about matching the size and resolution fields. This parameter controls which axis is divided into Uniform Sampling Divisions.

Uniform Sampling Divs

The number of voxels to divide the Uniform Sampling axis into. The other axes will be divided into the number of cells that fit for this voxel size.

Sampling Divs

When using non-uniform voxel cells, each dimensions resolution can be specified here.

Div Size

The uniform size of the voxels, when specifying the voxel size directly. The given sized box will be filled by voxels of this size.

Max Extrap Cells

When generating velocity volumes, how many voxels from the ocean surface to extrapolate velocity values.

Max Displacement Frame

When generating volumes and points, this node needs to calculate the maximum horizontal and vertical displacement in the input ocean waves. If this parameter is enabled, the displacement will be estimated only once at the specified frame, which is fast, gives a stable point output, and it typically accurate enough for good results. However, in the case of animated wave amplitudes or quickly varying instacing geometry, it may be necessary to continuously re-calculate the displacement by disabling this parameter.

Rest Volumes

Rest Displacement

Output the internally computed displacement volume. Samples taken from this volume should be in rest position.

Rest Velocity

Output the internally computed velocity volume. Samples taken from this volume should be in rest position.

Rest Derivatives

Output the internally computed spatial derivatives of displacement. Samples taken from this volume should be in rest position.

Points

Points from Volume

Generate points with velocity in the volumetric intersection of the ocean surface and the specified box.

Point Separation

The smallest distance between any two of the generated points in the initial configuration.

Jitter Seed

Random seed for creating jitter.

Jitter Scale

The amount of jitter to apply to the positional values of the points.

Min Rest Depth

The minimum depth of points relative to the ocean surface.

Max Rest Depth

The maximum depth of points relative to the ocean surface.

Box Size

The size of the box in which to generate points.

Box Center

The origin of the box in which to generate points.

Pad Scale

The rest configuration of points is generated by evaluating the maximum possible ocean displacement at time zero. This will usually be sufficient padding, but with extreme displacement it might be necessary to increase the padding scale in this parameter.

Create Output Group

Create a group containing the generated points.

Output Group

The name of the generated output point group.

Export to Texture

This tab controls exporting the displacement and cusp volumes to textures that can be sampled during rendering. Most of the parameters here are exposed from the Composite output node. If there are multiple Ocean Spectrum inputs to this node and Bake All Displacements to One Layer is disabled, then each layer can be written out to a separate file sequence by using the $OCEANLAYER global variable in the filename, as it is set to the current layer being exported. If Bake All Displacements to One Layer is enabled then only one layer is output.

Channels

Controls where the displacement and / or cusp values are stored in the texture.

Raster Depth

Controls the bit depth of the generated textures. If the texture format supports 16-bit float, this bit depth can save space with little degradation in rendering.

Bake All Displacements to One Layer

Bake all displacements from the input layers, masks, and noise to a single texture that covers the entire input geometry. If the UV Attribute output is enabled, the 'uv' attribute will span the entire input geometry and this single texture can be used to displace the input geometry at render time.

Note

The texture will not repeat as the per-layer spectrum output will. However, since it includes all masks and noise in a single texture, it is the most straightforward method for rendering ocean output with a displacement map.

See also

Geometry nodes

  • Adaptive Prune

    Removes elements while trying to maintain the overall appearance.

  • Add

    Creates Points or Polygons, or adds points/polys to an input.

  • Agent

    Creates agent primitives.

  • Agent Clip

    Adds new clips to agent primitives.

  • Agent Clip Properties

    Defines how agents' animation clips should be played back.

  • Agent Clip Transition Graph

    Creates geometry describing possible transitions between animation clips.

  • Agent Collision Layer

    Creates a new agent layer that is suitable for collision detection.

  • Agent Configure Joints

    Creates point attributes that specify the rotation limits of an agent’s joints.

  • Agent Constraint Network

    Builds a constraint network to hold an agent’s limbs together.

  • Agent Edit

    Edits properties of agent primitives.

  • Agent Layer

    Adds a new layer to agent primitives.

  • Agent Look At

    Adjusts the head of an agent to look at a specific object or position.

  • Agent Look At

    Adjusts the head of an agent to look at a specific object or position.

  • Agent Prep

    Adds various common point attributes to agents for use by other crowd nodes.

  • Agent Prep

    Adds various common point attributes to agents for use by other crowd nodes.

  • Agent Proxy

    Provides simple proxy geometry for an agent.

  • Agent Relationship

    Creates parent-child relationships between agents.

  • Agent Terrain Adaptation

    Adapts agents' legs to conform to terrain and prevent the feet from sliding.

  • Agent Transform Group

    Adds new transform groups to agent primitives.

  • Alembic

    Loads the geometry from an Alembic scene archive (.abc) file into a geometry network.

  • Alembic Group

    Creates a geometry group for Alembic primitives.

  • Alembic Primitive

    Modifies intrinsic properties of Alembic primitives.

  • Alembic ROP output driver

  • Align

    Aligns a group of primitives to each other or to an auxiliary input.

  • Assemble

    Cleans up a series of break operations and creates the resulting pieces.

  • Attribute Blur

    Blurs out (or "relaxes") points in a mesh or a point cloud.

  • Attribute Cast

    Changes the size/precision Houdini uses to store an attribute.

  • Attribute Composite

    Composites vertex, point, primitive, and/or detail attributes between two or more selections.

  • Attribute Copy

    Copies attributes between groups of vertices, points, or primitives.

  • Attribute Create

    Adds or edits user defined attributes.

  • Attribute Delete

    Deletes point and primitive attributes.

  • Attribute Expression

    Allows simple VEX expressions to modify attributes.

  • Attribute Fade

    Fades a point attribute in and out over time.

  • Attribute Interpolate

    Interpolates attributes within primitives or based on explicit weights.

  • Attribute Mirror

    Copies and flips attributes from one side of a plane to another.

  • Attribute Promote

    Promotes or demotes attributes from one geometry level to another.

  • Attribute Randomize

    Generates random attribute values of various distributions.

  • Attribute Rename

    Renames or deletes point and primitive attributes.

  • Attribute Reorient

    Modifies point attributes based on differences between two models.

  • Attribute String Edit

    Edits string attribute values.

  • Attribute Swap

    Copies, moves, or swaps the contents of attributes.

  • Attribute Transfer

    Transfers vertex, point, primitive, and/or detail attributes between two models.

  • Attribute Transfer By UV

    Transfers attributes between two geometries based on UV proximity.

  • Attribute VOP

    Runs a VOP network to modify geometry attributes.

  • Attribute Wrangle

    Runs a VEX snippet to modify attribute values.

  • Attribute from Map

    Samples texture map information to a point attribute.

  • Attribute from Volume

    Copies information from a volume onto the point attributes of another piece of geometry, with optional remapping.

  • Bake ODE

    Converts primitives for ODE and Bullet solvers.

  • Bake Volume

    Computes lighting values within volume primitives

  • Basis

    Provides operations for moving knots within the parametric space of a NURBS curve or surface.

  • Bend

    Applies deformations such as bend, taper, squash/stretch, and twist.

  • Blast

    Deletes primitives, points, edges or breakpoints.

  • Blend Shapes

    Computes a 3D metamorphosis between shapes with the same topology.

  • Block Begin

    The start of a looping block.

  • Block Begin Compile

    The start of a compile block.

  • Block End

    The end/output of a looping block.

  • Block End Compile

    The end/output of a compile block.

  • Bone Capture

    Supports Bone Deform by assigning capture weights to bones.

  • Bone Capture Biharmonic

    Supports Deform by assigning capture weights to points based on biharmonic functions on tetrahedral meshes.

  • Bone Capture Lines

    Supports Bone Capture Biharmonic by creating lines from bones with suitable attributes.

  • Bone Capture Proximity

    Supports Bone Deform by assigning capture weights to points based on distance to bones.

  • Bone Deform

    Uses capture attributes created from bones to deform geometry according to their movement.

  • Bone Link

    Creates default geometry for Bone objects.

  • Boolean

    Combines two polygonal objects with boolean operators, or finds the intersection lines between two polygonal objects.

  • Bound

    Creates an axis-aligned bounding box or sphere for the input geometry.

  • Box

    Creates a cube or six-sided rectangular box.

  • Break

    Breaks the input geometry using the specified cutting shape.

  • Bulge

    Deforms the points in the first input using one or more magnets from the second input.

  • Cache

    Records and caches its input geometry for faster playback.

  • Cap

    Closes open areas with flat or rounded coverings.

  • Capture Attribute Pack

    Converts array attributes into a single index-pair capture attribute.

  • Capture Attribute Unpack

    Converts a single index-pair capture attribute into per-point and detail array attributes.

  • Capture Correct

    Adjusts capture regions and capture weights.

  • Capture Layer Paint

    Lets you paint capture attributes directly onto geometry.

  • Capture Mirror

    Copies capture attributes from one half of a symmetric model to the other.

  • Capture Override

    Overrides the capture weights on individual points.

  • Capture Region

    Supports Capture and Deform operation by creating a volume within which points are captured to a bone.

  • Carve

    Slices, cuts or extracts points or cross-sections from a primitive.

  • Channel

    Reads sample data from a chop and converts it into point positions and point attributes.

  • Circle

    Creates open or closed arcs, circles and ellipses.

  • Clay

    Lets you deform NURBS faces and NURBS surfaces by pulling points that lie directly on them.

  • Clean

    Helps clean up dirty models.

  • Clip

    Removes or groups geometry on one side of a plane, or creases geometry along a plane.

  • Cloth Capture

    Captures low-res simulated cloth.

  • Cloth Deform

    Deforms geometry captured by the Cloth Capture SOP.

  • Cloud

    Creates a volume representation of source geometry.

  • Cloud Light

    Fills a volume with a diffuse light.

  • Cloud Noise

    Applies a cloud like noise to a Fog volume.

  • Cluster

    Low-level machinery to cluster points based on their positions (or any vector attribute).

  • Cluster Points

    Higher-level node to cluster points based on their positions (or any vector attribute).

  • Collision Source

    Creates geometry and VDB volumes for use with DOPs collisions.

  • Color

    Adds color attributes to geometry.

  • Comb

    Adjust surface point normals by painting.

  • Connect Adjacent Pieces

    Creates lines between nearby pieces.

  • Connectivity

    Creates an attribute with a unique value for each set of connected primitives or points.

  • Control

    Creates simple geometry for use as control shapes.

  • Convert

    Converts geometry from one geometry type to another.

  • Convert HeightField

    Converts a 2D height field to a 3D VDB volume, polygon surface, or polygon soup surface.

  • Convert Line

    Converts the input geometry into line segments.

  • Convert Meta

    Polygonizes metaball geometry.

  • Convert Tets

    Generates the oriented surface of a tetrahedron mesh.

  • Convert VDB

    Converts sparse volumes.

  • Convert VDB Points

    Converts a Point Cloud into a VDB Points Primitive, or vice versa.

  • Convert Volume

    Converts the iso-surface of a volume into a polygonal surface.

  • Copy Stamp

    Creates multiple copies of the input geometry, or copies the geometry onto the points of the second input.

  • Copy and Transform

    Copies geometry and applies transformations to the copies.

  • Copy to Points

    Copies the geometry in the first input onto the points of the second input.

  • Crease

    Manually adds or removes a creaseweight attribute to/from polygon edges, for use with the Subdivide SOP.

  • Creep

    Deforms and animates a piece of geometry across a surface.

  • Crowd Source

    Populates a crowd of agent primitives.

  • Crowd Source

    Creates crowd agents to be used with the crowd solver.

  • Curve

    Creates polygonal, NURBS, or Bezier curves.

  • Curveclay

    Deforms a spline surface by reshaping a curve on the surface.

  • Curvesect

    Finds the intersections (or points of minimum distance) between two or more curves or faces.

  • DOP I/O

    Imports fields from DOP simulations, saves them to disk, and loads them back again.

  • DOP Import Fields

    Imports scalar and vector fields from a DOP simulation.

  • DOP Import Records

    Imports option and record data from DOP simulations into points with point attributes.

  • DOP Network

  • Debris Source

    Generates point emission sources for debris from separating fractured rigid body objects.

  • Deformation Wrangle

    Runs a VEX snippet to deform geometry.

  • Delete

    Deletes input geometry by group, entity number, bounding volume, primitive/point/edge normals, and/or degeneracy.

  • Delete Overlapping Polygons

    Removes polygons that overlap.

  • DeltaMush

    Smooths out (or "relaxes") point deformations.

  • Dissolve

    Deletes edges from the input polygonal geometry merging polygons with shared edges.

  • Dissolve

    Deletes points, primitives, and edges from the input geometry and repairs any holes left behind.

  • Divide

    Divides, smooths, and triangulates polygons.

  • Dop Import

    Imports and transforms geometry based on information extracted from a DOP simulation.

  • Draw Curve

    Creates a curve based on user input in the viewport.

  • Draw Guides

  • Each

    Culls the input geometry according to the specifications of the For Each SOP.

  • Edge Collapse

    Collapses edges and faces to their centerpoints.

  • Edge Cusp

    Sharpens edges by uniquing their points and recomputing point normals.

  • Edge Divide

    Inserts points on the edges of polygons and optionally connects them.

  • Edge Flip

    Flips the direction of polygon edges.

  • Edge Transport

    Copies and optionally modifies attribute values along edges networks and curves.

  • Edit

    Edits points, edges, or faces interactively.

  • Ends

    Closes, opens, or clamps end points.

  • Enumerate

    Sets an attribute on selected points or primitives to sequential numbers.

  • Error

    Generates a message, warning, or error, which can show up on a parent asset.

  • Exploded View

    Pushes geometry out from the center to create an exploded view.

  • Extrude

    Extrudes geometry along a normal.

  • Extrude Volume

    Extrudes surface geometry into a volume.

  • Facet

    Controls the smoothness of faceting of a surface.

  • Filament Advect

    Evolves polygonal curves as vortex filaments.

  • File

    Reads, writes, or caches geometry on disk.

  • File Cache

    Writes and reads geometry sequences to disk.

  • File Merge

    Reads and collates data from disk.

  • Fillet

    Creates smooth bridging geometry between two curves or surfaces.

  • Filmbox FBX ROP output driver

  • Find Shortest Path

    Finds the shortest paths from start points to end points, following the edges of a surface.

  • Fit

    Fits a spline curve to points, or a spline surface to a mesh of points.

  • Fluid Compress

    Compresses the output of fluid simulations to decrease size on disk

  • Fluid Source

    Creates one or multiple volumes out of geometry to be used in a fluid simulation

  • Font

    Creates 3D text from Type 1, TrueType and OpenType fonts.

  • Force

    Uses a metaball to attract or repel points or springs.

  • Fractal

    Creates jagged mountain-like divisions of the input geometry.

  • Fur

    Создает множество кривых на поверхности, представляющих из себя волосы или шерсть.

  • Fuse

    Merges or splits (uniques) points.

  • Geometry ROP output driver

  • Glue Cluster

    Adds strength to a glue constraint network according to cluster values.

  • Grain Source

    Generates particles to be used as sources in a particle-based grain simulation.

  • Grid

    Creates planar geometry.

  • Groom Blend

    Объединяет направляющие и геометрии кожи двух груминг объектов.

  • Groom Fetch

    Получает данные груминга из объектов груминга.

  • Groom Pack

    Помещает компоненты груминга в упакованные примитивы, чтобы в последствии записать на диск.

  • Groom Switch

    Переключение всех компонентов между двумя потоками груминга.

  • Groom Unpack

    Распаковывает компоненты груминга из запакованного груминга.

  • Group

    Generates groups of points, primitives, edges, or vertices according to various criteria.

  • Group Combine

    Combines point groups, primitive groups, or edge groups according to boolean operations.

  • Group Copy

    Copies groups between two pieces of geometry, based on point/primitive numbers.

  • Group Delete

    Deletes groups of points, primitives, edges, or vertices according to patterns.

  • Group Expression

    Runs VEX expressions to modify group membership.

  • Group Paint

    Sets group membership interactively by painting.

  • Group Promote

    Converts point, primitive, edge, or vertex groups into point, primitive, edge, or vertex groups.

  • Group Range

    Groups points and primitives by ranges.

  • Group Rename

    Renames groups according to patterns.

  • Group Transfer

    Transfers groups between two pieces of geometry, based on proximity.

  • Guide Advect

    Перемещает точки направляющих в соответствии с объемом (полем) скоростей.

  • Guide Collide With VDB

    Решает коллизии направляющих кривых с VDB SDF (signed distance fields).

  • Guide Deform

    Деформирует геометрию в соответствии с анимированной поверхностью кожи или направляющими кривыми (при наличии).

  • Guide Groom

    Интуитивное управление направляющими кривыми во вьюпорте.

  • Guide Group

    Создает стандартные группы примитивов, используемые инструментами груминга.

  • Guide Initialize

    Позволяет быстро указать направляющим волос некоторое начальное направление.

  • Guide Mask

    Создает атрибуты масок для различных операций груминга.

  • Guide Partition

  • Guide Skin Attribute Lookup

    Считывает атрибуты геометрии кожи в корневой точке направляющих кривых.

  • Guide Tangent Space

    Построение пространства касательных вдоль кривой.

  • Guide Transfer

    Перенос направляющих волос между геометриями.

  • Hair Clump

    Собирает в пряди направляющие кривые.

  • Hair Generate

    Генерирует волосы на поверхности или из точек.

  • Hair Growth Field

    Создает поле скоростей, основанное на примитивах мазков.

  • HeightField

    Generates an initial heightfield volume for use with terrain tools.

  • HeightField Blur

    Blurs a terrain height field or mask.

  • HeightField Clip

    Limits height values to a certain minimum and/or maximum.

  • HeightField Copy Layer

    Creates a copy of a height field or mask.

  • HeightField Crop

    Extracts a square of a certain width/length from a larger height volume, or resizes/moves the boundaries of the height field.

  • HeightField Distort

    Advects the input volume through a noise pattern to break up hard edges and add variety.

  • HeightField Draw Mask

    Lets you draw shapes to create a mask for height field tools.

  • HeightField Erode

    Calculates thermal and hydraulic erosion over time (frames) to create more realistic terrain.

  • HeightField File

    Imports a 2D image map from a file or compositing node into a height field or mask.

  • HeightField Isolate Layer

    Copies another layer over the mask layer, and optionally flattens the height field.

  • HeightField Layer

    Composites together two height fields.

  • HeightField Layer Clear

    Sets all values in a heightfield layer to 0.

  • HeightField Layer Property

    Sets the border voxel policy on a height field volume.

  • HeightField Mask by Feature

    Creates a mask based on different features of the height layer.

  • HeightField Mask by Object

    Creates a mask based some other geometry.

  • HeightField Noise

    Adds vertical noise to a height field, creating peaks and valleys.

  • HeightField Output

    Exports height and/or mask layers to disk as an image.

  • HeightField Paint

    Lets you paint values into a height or mask field using strokes.

  • HeightField Patch

    Patches features from one heightfield to another.

  • HeightField Pattern

    Adds displacement in the form of a ramps, steps, stripes, Voronoi cells, or other patterns.

  • HeightField Project

    Projects 3D geometry into a height field.

  • HeightField Quick Shade

    Applies a material that lets you plug in textures for different layers.

  • HeightField Remap

    Remaps the values in a height field or mask layer.

  • HeightField Resample

    Changes the resolution of a height field.

  • HeightField Scatter

    Scatters points across the surface of a height field.

  • HeightField Slump

    Simulates loose material sliding down inclines and piling at the bottom.

  • HeightField Terrace

    Creates stepped plains from slopes in the terrain.

  • HeightField Tile Splice

    Stitches height field tiles back together.

  • HeightField Tile Split

    Splits a height field volume into rows and columns.

  • HeightField Transform

    Height field specific scales and offsets.

  • HeightField Visualize

    Visualizes elevations using a custom ramp material, and mask layers using tint colors.

  • Hole

    Makes holes in surfaces.

  • Inflate

    Deforms the points in the first input to make room for the inflation tool.

  • Instance

    Instances Geometry on Points.

  • Intersection Analysis

    Creates points with attributes at intersections between a triangle and/or curve mesh with itself, or with an optional second set of triangles and/or curves.

  • Intersection Stitch

    Composes triangle surfaces and curves together into a single connected mesh.

  • Invoke Compiled Block

    Processes its inputs using the operation of a referenced compiled block.

  • IsoOffset

    Builds an offset surface from geometry.

  • IsoSurface

    Generates an isometric surface from an implicit function.

  • Join

    The Join op connects a sequence of faces or surfaces into a single primitive that inherits their attributes.

  • Knife

    Divides, deletes, or groups geometry based on an interactively drawn line.

  • L-System

    Creates fractal geometry from the recursive application of simple rules.

  • Lattice

    Deforms geometry based on how you reshape control geometry.

  • Lidar Import

    Reads a lidar file and imports a point cloud from its data.

  • Line

    Creates polygon or NURBS lines from a position, direction, and distance.

  • MDD

    Animates points using an MDD file.

  • Magnet

    Deforms geometry by using another piece of geometry to attract or repel points.

  • Match Axis

    Aligns the input geometry to a specific axis.

  • Match Size

    Resizes and recenters the geometry according to reference geometry.

  • Match Topology

    Reorders the primitive and point numbers of the input geometry to match some reference geometry.

  • Material

    Assigns one or more materials to geometry.

  • Measure

    Measures volume, area, and perimeter of polygons and puts the results in attributes.

  • Merge

    Merges geometry from its inputs.

  • MetaGroups

    Defines groupings of metaballs so that separate groupings are treated as separate surfaces when merged.

  • Metaball

    Creates metaballs and meta-superquadric surfaces.

  • Mirror

    Duplicates and mirrors geometry across a mirror plane.

  • Mountain

    Displaces points along their normals based on fractal noise.

  • Mountain

    Displaces points along their normals based on fractal noise.

  • Muscle Capture

    Supports Muscle Deform by assigning capture weights to points based on distance away from given primitives

  • Muscle Deform

    Deforms a surface mesh representing skin to envelop or drape over geometry representing muscles

  • Name

    Creates a "naming" attribute on points or primitives allowing you to refer to them easily, similar to groups.

  • Normal

    Computes surface normal attribute.

  • Null

    Does nothing.

  • Object Merge

    Merges geometry from multiple sources and allows you to define the manner in which they are grouped together and transformed.

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  • Object_riggedmuscle@musclestrokebuilder

    Assists the creation of a Muscle or Muscle Rig by allowing you to draw a stroke on a projection surface.

  • Ocean Evaluate

    Deforms input geometry based on ocean "spectrum" volumes.

  • Ocean Evaluate

    Deforms input geometry based on ocean "spectrum" volumes.

  • Ocean Foam

    Generates particle-based foam

  • Ocean Source

    Generates particles and volumes from ocean "spectrum" volumes for use in simulations

  • Ocean Source

    Generates particles and volumes from ocean "spectrum" volumes for use in simulations

  • Ocean Spectrum

    Generates volumes containing information for simulating ocean waves.

  • Ocean Waves

    Instances individual waveforms onto input points and generated points.

  • OpenCL

    Executes an OpenCL kernel on geometry.

  • Output

    Marks the output of a sub-network.

  • Pack

    Packs geometry into an embedded primitive.

  • Pack Points

    Packs points into a tiled grid of packed primitives.

  • Packed Disk Edit

    Editing Packed Disk Primitives.

  • Packed Edit

    Editing Packed Primitives.

  • Paint

    Lets you paint color or other attributes on geometry.

  • Paint Color Volume

    Creates a color volume based on drawn curve

  • Paint Fog Volume

    Creates a fog volume based on drawn curve

  • Paint SDF Volume

    Creates an SDF volume based on drawn curve

  • Particle

    Creates simple particle simulations without requiring an entire particle network.

  • Particle Fluid Surface

    Generates a surface around the particles from a particle fluid simulation.

  • Particle Fluid Tank

    Creates a set of regular points filling a tank.

  • Partition

    Places points and primitives into groups based on a user-supplied rule.

  • Peak

    Moves primitives, points, edges or breakpoints along their normals.

  • Platonic Solids

    Creates platonic solids of different types.

  • Point

    Manually adds or edits point attributes.

  • Point Cloud Iso

    Constructs an iso surface from its input points.

  • Point Deform

    Deforms geometry on an arbitrary connected point mesh.

  • Point Generate

    Creates new points, optionally based on point positions in the input geometry.

  • Point Jitter

    Jitters points in random directions.

  • Point Relax

    Moves points with overlapping radii away from each other, optionally on a surface.

  • Point Replicate

    Generates a cloud of points around the input points.

  • Points from Volume

    Creates set of regular points filling a volume.

  • Poly Bridge

    Creates flat or tube-shaped polygon surfaces between source and destination edge loops, with controls for the shape of the bridge.

  • Poly Expand 2D

    Creates offset polygonal geometry for planar polygonal graphs.

  • Poly Extrude

    Extrudes polygonal faces and edges.

  • PolyBevel

    Creates straight, rounded, or custom fillets along edges and corners.

  • PolyBevel

    Bevels points and edges.

  • PolyCut

    Breaks curves where an attribute crosses a threshold.

  • PolyDoctor

    Helps repair invalid polygonal geometry, such as for cloth simulation.

  • PolyExtrude

    Extrudes polygonal faces and edges.

  • PolyFill

    Fills holes with polygonal patches.

  • PolyFrame

    Creates coordinate frame attributes for points and vertices.

  • PolyLoft

    Creates new polygons using existing points.

  • PolyPatch

    Creates a smooth polygonal patch from primitives.

  • PolyPath

    Cleans up topology of polygon curves.

  • PolyReduce

    Reduces the number of polygons in a model while retaining its shape. This node preserves features, attributes, textures, and quads during reduction.

  • PolySoup

    Combines polygons into a single primitive that can be more efficient for many polygons

  • PolySpline

    The PolySpline SOP fits a spline curve to a polygon or hull and outputs a polygonal approximation of that spline.

  • PolySplit

    Divides an existing polygon into multiple new polygons.

  • PolySplit

    Divides an existing polygon into multiple new polygons.

  • PolyStitch

    Stitches polygonal surfaces together, attempting to remove cracks.

  • PolyWire

    Constructs polygonal tubes around polylines, creating renderable geometry with smooth bends and intersections.

  • Pose Scope

    Assigns channel paths and/or pickscripts to geometry.

  • Primitive

    Edits primitive, primitive attributes, and profile curves.

  • Primitive Split

    Takes a primitive attribute and splits any points whose primitives differ by more than a specified tolerance at that attribute.

  • Profile

    Extracts or manipulates profile curves.

  • Project

    Creates profile curves on surfaces.

  • Python

    Runs a Python snippet to modify the incoming geometry.

  • RMan Shader

    Attaches RenderMan shaders to groups of faces.

  • Rails

    Generates surfaces by stretching cross-sections between two guide rails.

  • Ray

    Projects one surface onto another.

  • Refine

    Increases the number of points/CVs in a curve or surface without changing its shape.

  • Reguide

    Разбрасывает новые направляющие, интерполируя значения существующих направляющих.

  • Remesh

    Recreates the shape of the input surface using "high-quality" (nearly equilateral) triangles.

  • Repack

    Repacks geometry as an embedded primitive.

  • Resample

    Resamples one or more curves or surfaces into even length segments.

  • Rest Position

    Sets the alignment of solid textures to the geometry so the texture stays put on the surface as it deforms.

  • Reverse

    Reverses or cycles the vertex order of faces.

  • Revolve

    Revolves a curve around a center axis to sweep out a surface.

  • Rewire Vertices

    Rewires vertices to different points specified by an attribute.

  • Ripple

    Generates ripples by displacing points along the up direction specified.

  • Scatter

    Scatters new points randomly across a surface or through a volume.

  • Script

    Runs scripts when cooked.

  • Sculpt

    Lets you interactively reshape a surface by brushing.

  • Sequence Blend

    Morphs though a sequence of 3D shapes, interpolating geometry and attributes.

  • Sequence Blend

    Sequence Blend lets you do 3D Metamorphosis between shapes and Interpolate point position, colors…

  • Shrinkwrap

    Computes the convex hull of the input geometry and moves its polygons inwards along their normals.

  • Shrinkwrap

    Takes the convex hull of input geometry and moves its polygons inwards along their normals.

  • Skin

    Builds a skin surface between any number of shape curves.

  • Sky

    Creates a sky filled with volumentric clouds

  • Smooth

    Smooths out (or "relaxes") polygons, meshes and curves without increasing the number of points.

  • Smooth

    Smooths out (or "relaxes") polygons, meshes and curves without increasing the number of points.

  • Soft Peak

    Moves the selected point along its normal, with smooth rolloff to surrounding points.

  • Soft Transform

    Moves the selected point, with smooth rolloff to surrounding points.

  • Solid Conform

    Creates a tetrahedral mesh that conforms to a connected mesh as much as possible.

  • Solid Embed

    Creates a simple tetrahedral mesh that covers a connected mesh.

  • Solid Fracture

    Creates a partition of a tetrahedral mesh that can be used for finite-element fracturing.

  • Solver

    Allows running a SOP network iteratively over some input geometry, with the output of the network from the previous frame serving as the input for the network at the current frame.

  • Sort

    Reorders points and primitives in different ways.

  • Sphere

    Creates a sphere or ovoid surface.

  • Split

    Splits primitives or points into two streams.

  • Spray Paint

    Spray paints random points onto a surface.

  • Spring

    Simulates the behavior of points as if the edges connecting them were springs.

  • Sprite

    A SOP node that sets the sprite display for points.

  • Starburst

    Insets points on polygonal faces.

  • Stash

    Caches the input geometry in the node on command, and then uses it as the node’s output.

  • Stitch

    Stretches two curves or surfaces to cover a smooth area.

  • Stroke

    Low level tool for building interactive assets.

  • Stroke Cache

    Simplifies the building of tools that incrementally modify geometry based on strokes.

  • Subdivide

    Subdivides polygons into smoother, higher-resolution polygons.

  • Subnetwork

    The Subnet op is essentially a way of creating a macro to represent a collection of ops as a single op in the Network Editor.

  • Super Quad

    Generates an isoquadric surface.

  • Surfsect

    Trims or creates profile curves along the intersection lines between NURBS or bezier surfaces.

  • Sweep

    Creates a surface by sweeping cross-sections along a backbone curve.

  • Switch

    Switches between network branches based on an expression or keyframe animation.

  • Table Import

    Reads a CSV file creating point per row.

  • Test Geometry: Pig Head

    Creates a pig head, which can be used as test geometry..

  • Test Geometry: Rubber Toy

    Creates a rubber toy, which can be used as test geometry.

  • Test Geometry: Shader Ball

    Creates a shader ball, which can be used to test shaders.

  • Test Geometry: Squab

    Creates a squab, which can be used as test geometry.

  • Test Geometry: Tommy

    Creates a soldier, which can be used as test geometry.

  • Test Simulation: Crowd Transition

    Provides a simple crowd simulation for testing transitions between animation clips.

  • Test Simulation: Ragdoll

    Provides a simple Bullet simulation for testing the behavior of a ragdoll.

  • Tet Partition

    Partitions a given tetrahedron mesh into groups of tets isolated by a given polygon mesh

  • Tetrahedralize

    Performs variations of a Delaunay Tetrahedralization.

  • Time Warp

    Retimes the input to a different time range.

  • TimeBlend

    Blends intraframe values for geometry.

  • TimeShift

    Cooks the input at a different time.

  • Toon Shader Attributes

    Sets attributes used by the Toon Color Shader and Toon Outline Shader.

  • TopoBuild

    Lets you interactively draw a reduced quad mesh automatically snapped to existing geometry.

  • Torus

    Creates a torus (doughnut) shaped surface.

  • Trace

    Traces curves from an image file.

  • Trail

    Creates trails behind points.

  • Transform

    The Transform operation transforms the source geometry in "object space" using a transformation matrix.

  • Transform Axis

    Transforms the input geometry relative to a specific axis.

  • Transform By Attribute

    Transforms the input geometry by a point attribute.

  • Transform Pieces

    Transforms input geometry according to transformation attributes on template geometry.

  • Tri Bezier

    Creates a triangular Bezier surface.

  • TriDivide

    Refines triangular meshes using various metrics.

  • Triangulate 2D

    Connects points to form well-shaped triangles.

  • Trim

    Trims away parts of a spline surface defined by a profile curve or untrims previous trims.

  • Tube

    Creates open or closed tubes, cones, or pyramids.

  • Twist

    Applies deformations such as bend, linear taper, shear, squash/stretch, taper, and twist.

  • UV Brush

    Adjusts texture coordinates in the UV viewport by painting.

  • UV Edit

    Lets you interactively move UVs in the texture view.

  • UV Flatten

    Creates flattened pieces in texture space from 3D geometry.

  • UV Flatten

    Creates flattened pieces in texture space from 3D geometry.

  • UV Fuse

    Merges UVs.

  • UV Layout

    Tries to pack UV islands efficiently into a limited area.

  • UV Pelt

    Relaxes UVs by pulling them out toward the edges of the texture area.

  • UV Project

    Assigns UVs by projecting them onto the surface from a set direction.

  • UV Quick Shade

    Applies an image file as a textured shader to a surface.

  • UV Texture

    Assigns texture UV coordinates to geometry for use in texture and bump mapping.

  • UV Transform

    Transforms UV texture coordinates on the source geometry.

  • UV Transform

    Transforms UV texture coordinates on the source geometry.

  • UV Unwrap

    Separates UVs into reasonably flat, non-overlapping groups.

  • Unix

    Processes geometry using an external program.

  • Unpack

    Unpacks packed primitives.

  • Unpack Points

    Unpacks points from packed primitives.

  • VDB

    Creates one or more empty/uniform VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB Activate

    Activates voxel regions of a VDB for further processing.

  • VDB Activate SDF

    Expand or contract signed distance fields stored on VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB Advect Points

    Moves points in the input geometry along a VDB velocity field.

  • VDB Advect SDF

    Moves SDF VDBs in the input geometry along a VDB velocity field.

  • VDB Analysis

    Computes an analytic property of a VDB volumes, such as gradient or curvature.

  • VDB Clip

    Clips VDB volume primitives using a bounding box or another VDB as a mask.

  • VDB Combine

    Combines the values of two aligned VDB volumes in various ways.

  • VDB Diagnostics

    Tests VDBs for Bad Values and Repairs.

  • VDB Fracture

    Cuts level set VDB volume primitives into multiple pieces.

  • VDB LOD

    Build an LOD Pyramid from a VDB.

  • VDB Morph SDF

    Blends between source and target SDF VDBs.

  • VDB Occlusion Mask

    Create a mask of the voxels in shadow from a camera for VDB primitives.

  • VDB Points Group

    Manipulates the Internal Groups of a VDB Points Primitive.

  • VDB Project Non-Divergent

    Removes divergence from a Vector VDB.

  • VDB Renormalize SDF

    Fixes signed distance fields stored in VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB Resample

    Re-samples a VDB volume primitive into a new orientation and/or voxel size.

  • VDB Reshape SDF

    Reshapes signed distance fields in VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB Segment by Connectivity

    Splits SDF VDBs into connected components.

  • VDB Smooth

    Smooths out the values in a VDB volume primitive.

  • VDB Smooth SDF

    Smooths out SDF values in a VDB volume primitive.

  • VDB Topology to SDF

    Creates an SDF VDB based on the active set of another VDB.

  • VDB Vector Merge

    Merges three scalar VDB into one vector VDB.

  • VDB Vector Split

    Splits a vector VDB primitive into three scalar VDB primitives.

  • VDB Visualize Tree

    Replaces a VDB volume with geometry that visualizes its structure.

  • VDB from Particle Fluid

    Generates a signed distance field (SDF) VDB volume representing the surface of a set of particles from a particle fluid simulation.

  • VDB from Particles

    Converts point clouds and/or point attributes into VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB from Polygons

    Converts polygonal surfaces and/or surface attributes into VDB volume primitives.

  • VDB to Spheres

    Fills a VDB volume with adaptively-sized spheres.

  • VEX SOP

    References a VEX program that can manipulate point attributes.

  • Verify BSDF

    Verify that a bsdf conforms to the required interface.

  • Vertex

    Manually adds or edits attributes on vertices (rather than on points).

  • Vertex Split

    Takes a vertex attribute and splits any point whose vertices differ by more than a specified tolerance at that attribute.

  • Visibility

    Shows/hides primitives in the 3D viewer and UV editor.

  • Visualize

    Lets you attach visualizations to different nodes in a geometry network.

  • Volume

    Creates a volume primitive.

  • Volume Analysis

    Computes analytic properties of volumes.

  • Volume Arrival Time

    Computes a speed-defined travel time from source points to voxels.

  • Volume Blur

    Blurs the voxels of a volume.

  • Volume Bound

    Bounds voxel data.

  • Volume Break

    Cuts polygonal objects using a signed distance field volume.

  • Volume Compress

    Re-compresses Volume Primitives.

  • Volume Convolve 3×3×3

    Convolves a volume by a 3×3×3 kernel.

  • Volume FFT

    Compute the Fast Fourier Transform of volumes.

  • Volume Feather

    Feathers the edges of volumes.

  • Volume Merge

    Flattens many volumes into one volume.

  • Volume Mix

    Combines the scalar fields of volume primitives.

  • Volume Optical Flow

    Translates the motion between two "image" volumes into displacement vectors.

  • Volume Patch

    Fill in a region of a volume with features from another volume.

  • Volume Ramp

    Remaps a volume according to a ramp.

  • Volume Rasterize

    Rasterizes into a volume.

  • Volume Rasterize Curve

    Converts a curve into a volume.

  • Volume Rasterize Hair

    Converts fur or hair to a volume for rendering.

  • Volume Rasterize Particles

    Converts a point cloud into a volume.

  • Volume Rasterize Points

    Converts a point cloud into a volume.

  • Volume Reduce

    Reduces the values of a volume into a single number.

  • Volume Resample

    Resamples the voxels of a volume to a new resolution.

  • Volume Resize

    Resizes the bounds of a volume without changing voxels.

  • Volume SDF

    Builds a Signed Distance Field from an isocontour of a volume.

  • Volume Slice

    Extracts 2d slices from volumes.

  • Volume Splice

    Splices overlapping volume primitives together.

  • Volume Stamp

    Stamps volumes instanced on points into a single target volume.

  • Volume Surface

    Adaptively surfaces a volume hierarchy with a regular triangle mesh.

  • Volume Trail

    Computes a trail of points through a velocity volume.

  • Volume VOP

    Runs CVEX on a set of volume primitives.

  • Volume Velocity

    Computes a velocity volume.

  • Volume Velocity from Curves

    Generates a volume velocity field using curve tangents.

  • Volume Velocity from Surface

    Generates a velocity field within a surface geometry.

  • Volume Visualization

    Adjusts attributes for multi-volume visualization.

  • Volume Wrangle

    Runs a VEX snippet to modify voxel values in a volume.

  • Volume from Attribute

    Sets the voxels of a volume from point attributes.

  • Voronoi Fracture

    Fractures the input geometry by performing a Voronoi decomposition of space around the input cell points

  • Voronoi Fracture Points

    Given an object and points of impact on the object, this SOP generates a set of points that can be used as input to the Voronoi Fracture SOP to simulate fracturing the object from those impacts.

  • Voronoi Split

    Cuts the geometry into small pieces according to a set of cuts defined by polylines.

  • Vortex Force Attributes

    Creates the point attributes needed to create a Vortex Force DOP.

  • Whitewater Source

    Generates emission particles and volumes to be used as sources in a Whitewater simulation.

  • Wire Blend

    Morphs between curve shapes while maintaining curve length.

  • Wire Capture

    Captures surfaces to a wire, allowing you to edit the wire to deform the surface.

  • Wire Deform

    Deforms geometry captured to a curve via the Wire Capture node.

  • Wire Transfer Shape

    Transfers the shape of one curve to another.

  • Wireframe

    Constructs polygonal tubes around polylines, creating renderable geometry.