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The power of copy stamping - Houdini Tutorial
From the course: Learning Houdini
The power of copy stamping
- Okay, so we've created a hundred spheres based on the hundred points that came in on that grid, and what we want to do is we want to have each of those spheres, in this case, be a different size. Let's just randomize that. That, of course, would be something that would be really painful to do by hand, or in other applications may involve scripting or whatever. But here, we can just do it via a few expressions and it'll point to the power of what a system like this has the potential to do. The first thing we need to do is understand point numbers. So, I'm gonna explain this to you. We're gonna display flag our grid, and now I'm gonna turn on this button here. You see it's a point with a number. Instead of just the point view before like this, which turns on the points, this view actually then shows us the number of each of these points. The reason we're focusing on this is that we're gonna use a random expression to drive the random scaling of the spheres, but we want that random…
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