[Sidefx-houdini-list] HDK and help with Primitive groups...

[Lucio Flores]

--- Kickaha <kickaha at ponto-dot.com> wrote:

> Hello to all,
> 
>  I have just installed HDK and it is looking very sharp, but i must
> admit i'm having a bit of a problem with some basic stuff. My first
> attempt is to create a SOP to export polygonal geometry (it's a basic
> project just to get to know hdk).
> 
>  I managed to output the data including texture coordinates but i
> needed to split the data in one of two ways:
> 
> a) Output point data separated by the shader they are using
> b) Output point data separated by existing Primitive groups
> 
> Now that's where all my troubles start. How can i get a list of all
> existing Primitive groups? Will i need to resort to dynamic_cast for
> that? And is there a way to get a list of shaders being used besides
> traversing all primitives and checking it's attribute?

If you look in GB/GB_Macros.h, you'll find a #define for what you need. 

#define FOR_ALL_PRIMGROUPS(gdp, grp) \
	    for (grp=(GB_PrimitiveGroup *)gdp->primitiveGroups().head(); grp; \
		grp=(GB_PrimitiveGroup *)grp->next())

This will iterate over all primitive groups. Also look at GB/GB_ExtraMacros.h.
This has more useful definitions.

As for the shaders, the attribute is of type GB_ATTRIB_INDEX, which means that
the attribute itself is just an integer which indexes to a string in a table.
Since there are usually a handful of shader strings with many primitives which
point to them, they cleverly used this method instead of having each primitive
have a full copy of the shader string. Get a pointer from the gdp to the
GB_Attribute which holds the shader, then use GB_Attribute::getIndexSize() and
GB_Attribute::getIndex(int) to get the string values. No need to traverse all
the primitives, just query the attribute.

These are defined in GB/GB_AttributeDefines.h and GB/GB_Attribute.h

> 
> Sorry for such fumb questions but i've been looking at the docs for
> several hours and got nowhere. Thanks to all in advance for any help.
> 
> Cheers,
>

Docs?? 



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