Hello!
My goal is to recreate gridSOP from CHOP or DAT, but not with CHOPtoSOP / DATtoSOP, but directly with GLSL, so that it’s points position values will update when I change it upstream.
It’s working now with CHOPtoSOP, but I wish to save some CPU time and move it to GPU.)
I’ve dig through the forum, but I haven’t found the answer yet…
Thanks in advance and stay safe!
As a starting point you might first think about how to do this with textures.
Take a look at this toe file:
pos-as-texture.toe (15.6 KB)
Here we use two ramps to create a grid of points. Here our pixel’s color values for r, g, b and used for position as x, y, z.
This uses positions that are mapped in a value range of 0 - 1
This uses positions that are mapped in a range of -1 - 1
Finally, this one has positions derived form noise:
If you’re looking for code specific control (particle systems, or other complex movements) - You could write a GLSL TOP to do these same things, and then use that to drive your instances, or you write a GLSL material. I typically don’t write a shader directly unless I can’t do something with TOPs - but you could certainly do that as well.
Oh, thank you, Matthew!
