VolumeToMesh generating Quads or Triangles

[kco...@g.clemson.edu]

Hello and thanks in advance for reading this post.  I have been working on a mesh conversion tool using OpenVDB.  I have come across a situation where I would read in a mesh as triangles and store it as a VDB levelset using MeshToVolume.  I would then use VolumeToMesh to convert the VDB levelset into an OBJ file.  However, I noticed that the newly created obj file would be written as Quads as opposed to Triangles since VolumeToMesh returns a set of quads as opposed to triangles.  I was wondering if it there is a built-in way to specify whether the generated faces from VolumeToMesh are triangles or quads.  If not, I could convert the generated quads to triangles myself.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

~Kacey

[Ken Museth]

Hi Kacey,

The VolumeToMesh conversion tool generates quads because of the underlying algorithm (dual-contouring). If you need a triangle mesh you'll have to convert it yourself, but it's pretty straightforward. Alternative use the convert SOP in Houdini's free Apprentice :)

-K

[Kacey Coley]

Hi Ken,

Thanks for the response!  I'll look into converting the quads to triangles and check out Houdini's convert SOP.

~Kacey