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Convert

generators/convert·v1.5.1

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SUMMARY

The Convert reads geometry you already have, such as an imported model or Copy POP output, and creates one packed point per piece so POPX modifiers can move each piece as an instance while its geometry follows. A piece is either each disconnected part of the mesh (Connectivity) or each distinct value of a chosen point, vertex or primitive attribute (Piece Attribute).

Each packed point gets the piece's centroid, a rest frame from its averaged normals and its bounds, and selected input attributes can be transferred to it. Visualize Pieces colors every piece for checking, and POPX Reorient can adjust the local orientation afterwards if needed.

PARAMETERS

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[+]Partition Method	Partitionmethod	Determines how the geometry is split into pieces.
Max Edges per Point	Maxedgesperpoint	Number of edges followed per point when finding pieces. Raise it for poles and fans with many edges.
[+]Attribute Class	Attrclass	Sets the attribute class used to split the geometry into pieces.
Piece Attribute	Pieceattr	Sets the attribute used to split the geometry into pieces.
Transfer Attributes	Transferattrs	Sets the attributes transferred to the instances.
Generate Vertex Normals	Generatenormals	Enable generating vertex normals.
Max Number of Primitives per Point	Maxprimsperpoint	Used to allocate temporary storage, it should be set to the maximum number of primitives a point can be a part of in the input geometry.
Angle	Angle	For vertex normals, the threshold angle between faces above which the shared edge vertices don't share normals.
Visualize Pieces	Visualizepieces	Display each piece with a unique color.
Visualization Seed	Visualizationseed	Numerical value that initializes the random piece colors.

PAGECommon

Free Extra GPU Memory

Freeextragpumem

Free memory that has accumulated when output memory has grown and shrunk.

INPUTS

Input 0 POP - Geometry

OUTPUTS

Output 0 POP - POPX Geometry