Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Part 2: youtu.be/VdQDF96SYcs

In this first part of the chainmail tutorial Manuel shows you how to create procedural chainmail instancing real geometry onto a procedural hex pattern created with VOPs.

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00:00 Intro
00:35 Looking at an example
01:15 Thinking about hexagonal geometry
04:10 Building the setup in Houdini
04:18 Adding points
04:46 Create the hex grid distribution inside of a VOP
04:53 Create the parameters
06:10 Computing the horizontal and vertical distances
07:43 Working with ptnum
11:30 Offsetting every 2nd row
13:25 Copying geometry onto the points
15:22 Rotating individual instances
18:17 Sweeping the rings