Getting started
Installing
Put JV-Deoverlap_Polylines-v1.0.hdalc in Documents/houdini22.0/otls/. Houdini picks it up on the next launch.
If you're updating, delete the old .hdalc first. Two files defining the same asset will collide, and you don't want to find out which one won.
It appears under Tab ▸ JV ▸ Deoverlap Polylines, at SOP level.
Indie and Apprentice only
.hdalc is the Indie/Apprentice asset format. It will not load in Houdini FX or Core (commercial). That's a Houdini licensing rule, not a choice this tool makes.
Your first result
Drop a Grid SOP, set it to Rows and Columns, wire it into a Deoverlap Polylines and look from the side. The rows and columns now weave over and under. No setup — the defaults are meant to work.
Turn Push Amount up and down to see the whole lattice breathe, and switch on Visualize Intersection Points to see what the node found. That guide is the first thing to reach for when nothing seems to be happening: no spheres means the problem is detection, not the push.
A Grid SOP is a welded lattice, and that used to be the hard case
In Rows and Columns mode a grid shares a single point at every intersection — the rows and columns aren't crossing, they're joined, and a shared point can't move two ways. Split Shared Points (on by default) separates them, which is what makes this work at all. On a welded lattice that does raise the output point count, one point per curve.
