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Metaballs Shape

Intro​

Combine multiple Shapes into an organic blob.

UI​

Common Attributes +

Shapes - Connect Shapes to combine into metaballs.

Smoothness - Determine how aggressively input blobs fuse together.

Threshold - Set the iso-level for contour extraction.


Outer Bands - Set the number of additional iso contours emitted outside the central threshold contour, dilated outward.

Outer Range - Set the distance at which the outermost band sits, in pixels. Intermediate outer bands are spaced evenly between threshold and this distance.

Inner Bands - Set the number of additional iso contours emitted inside the central threshold contour, eroded inward.

Inner Range - Set the distance at which the innermost band sits, in pixels. Intermediate inner bands are spaced evenly between threshold and this distance.


Quality - Set the SDF grid resolution as a power of two e.g: 1=64², 2=128², 3=256², 4=512². Higher gives smoother contours and resolves fine detail at the cost of compute time.

Field Smoothing - Set the number of box blur iterations applied to the field before extraction.

Polyline Smoothing - Set the number of smoothing iterations applied to the extracted contours.


Output - Select the format of the emitted contour:

  • Polyline -
  • Cubic Bézier -