How to instance Line SOP based on end point coordinate information

[Kanata]

It’s my first time to post a question here. I would really appreciate it if somebody could help me.

I want to draw lots of lines in 3d space, and I have the coordinate information of their endpoints.
A usual way to draw lots of shapes is geometry instancing. However, I think it does not serve my purpose here since it only supports translation, rotation and scaling. I cannot specify the coordinates of endpoints of each line.
How can I achieve this?

[raganmd]

I would think of this challenge in two parts:

• instancing end points
• instancing lines

Rather than thinking about how that happens together, I think it will be easier for you to think of this as two different pieces of geometry. With a set of known end points you should then be able to make lines for these as well. There’s another thread about the Object CHOP that you might give a read to see if it helps:

Object CHOP Techniques

The Object CHOP has long been one of the most challenging CHOPs for me to really wrap my head around. Following along with some conversations on the Facebook Help Group, it’s clear that I’m not the only one who has bumped their head against how to take advantage of this operator. With that in mind, here are a few tricks and techniques that you might find helpful when working with the object CHOP. Distance Between Many Objects Part 1 At first glance, it seems like the object CHOP can only perf…

[Kanata]

Wonderful. The thread is exactly what I want.
Thanks a million.