Houdini's sweep node supports multiple cross-sections. We isolate one of its surfaces to blend into all others using multiparm-blocks with curve ramps and VEX.
Weighted average positions along the length based on dynamically created channel ramps of each cross section.
// INPUT
int num = chi('sections');
vector uv = vertex(0, 'uv', i@vtxnum);
// WEIGHTS
float weights[];
for(int k = 0; k <= num; k++){
float weight = chramp('weight' + itoa(k), uv[1]);
append(weights, weight);
}
float weight_sum = sum(weights);
// POSITIONS
vector pos = vector(0.0);
foreach(int i; float w; weights){
string grp = "@crossnum==" + itoa(i);
vector pos_i = uvsample(1, grp, 'P', 'uv', uv);
pos_i *= weights[i] / weight_sum;
pos += pos_i;
}
// OUTPUT
v@P = pos;
