Technical Artist Hugo Depping has released a short and comprehensive breakdown that might interest Houdini enthusiasts who work on creating tools that involve Normals. The artist demonstrated a way of setting up Normals for inflating and deflating mesh in Houdini using VEX, a high-performance expression language used for many of Houdini's features and tools. Additionally, the artist also shared the code behind the example project.
Hugo also commented that the VEX-based method was recommended to him by Technical Artist Bjorn Klaassen. For a non-VEX-related way, we also encourage you to check out Hugo's earlier blog post that covers just that. You can access it by visiting Hugo's ArtStation page.
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