![]() Tetrahedral soft bodies can now have fiber constraints and are additionally more harmonized. Friction attributes can now be set on per point basis. The multi-softbody simulation tool Vellum that was just introduced in H17 got some enhancements. Tetrahedral Fiber Friction under Stress (Vellum) My own tool currently under development, a plant generator (OGOP), is also going to benefit greatly from it since I am implementing a multi-lane/output workflow. Terrains and constraint setups are good examples for such multi-output workflows. The node outputs can now be viewed in the geometry spreadsheet and this allows for much better handling of multi-output HDA workflows. But maybe SideFX reserved this for H18, there is still hope. I would have wished for implementation right on the node and not in an old-fashioned drop-down menu or, in the case of the output, per Right-click sub-submenu. Unfortunately, this was not implemented very well. Now you can switch the output used and the output displayed in the geo spreadsheet. ![]() ![]() I’d like to begin with my own personal highlight: Houdini Nodes can have more than one output, while previously you had to connect a null node to the second or 3rd output if you wanted to display the output or if you wanted to look at the values in the geometry spreadsheet. But let me start with a different topic first. TOPs are certainly the highlight of this update. Houdini 17.5 update provides not only minor improvements but also completely new functions and in this case, even a completely new and very innovative operator type called TOPs – Task Operators Networks.
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