How to resample curves in Softimage

Hi,

Its been a long time since my last development post ! I was a “little” bit busy on the last Perrier commercial at la maison. It was a very interesting project and I hope to give you a web link soon !

In this cloudy parisian weekend, I was cleaning … some files on my laptop when I realised that I could send some of my plugins to the web instead of just let them sleep on the hard drive. 

 Here is the first one, a resample operator. As far as I know, you can’t resample curves in Softimage. I like the “resample” SOP in Houdini as you can choose the  number of points or a fixed segment length to resample a curve, so I add the same feature in this Softimage custom operator. It is a win32 dll, but if you want sources for other platforms, you can send me an email !

PS: no picture or video for this plugin, I’m too lazy !

Edit : I just found an old ICE wire dynamic scene to illustrate this plugin ! It is an unfinished project to find an alternative to Houdini wire solver. But as it is greatly improved in Houdini10 , I’m not sure I will finished it…  At least it is a good example for the resampleOp. A point cloud was used to deform a curve by setting curve points position from particles position.

Here is the video : http://www.vol2nuit.fr/guillaume/blog/resample_xsi_curve_op/resample_xsi_curve_op