Cameron White

You could try using the Configure Primitives LOP to edit the visibility properties

Using the crowd tools is probably the easiest way to simulate a large number of ragdolls. The KineFX ragdoll solver is aimed more at a single character, so it would be awkward to set up unless you merge all the skeletons together with unique joint names, or something like that

This is a limitation with Hydra currently - it doesn't perform skinning on the normals and instead flags them as needing to be recomputed after the deformation
A workaround is using the Bake Skinning LOP which does support deforming normals, with the downside of the skinning being baked instead of happening at render time