Houdini - cookie node tip: how to make it work as it should

Last week I did a lot of boolean operations on geometries and I noticed that sometimes Houdini cookie node doesn't work properly, generating a bunch of artifacts. If you are a Houdini user you know well what I'm talking about!

Original geometry

Cookie with artifacts

After some tests I discovered how to fix that issue... and it's very simple! Basically this node works better with some scales and generates some errors when your geometries are too big or too small.

So,

• if you have tiny geometries, scale them up a lot (100 times or more) BEFORE you plug them in the cookie node and re-scale down by the same value after the boolean operation;
• if you have huge geometries, scale them down before the cookie op and scale 'em up after.

Finally working!