I've recently updated the H.Engine from 18.0.532 to 18.5.596 (latest production build) and have issues with all tools that were using a combination between generated meshes alongside point cloud instances as output via simple merge nodes in the end.
I feel the setup is quite common and I've used it multiple times - heightfield w/ scattered prefabs; generated surface with copied prefab geometry.
All of the tools operated on the following basis: Houdini Setup: Unity 2019.3.1f result:
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I'm also linking a simplified tool with the case.
Any pointers or help on how to better handle such cases would be much appreciated!
I've done some digging around in a debug session and found that in Unity a scale and rot attributes are being added to the points in-engine (I suspected for the first input in the merge node, but really not sure).
Doing an attribute delete for the scale and rot attributes seems to help the issue.
I've checked the engine documentation and it specifies that point cloud instancers should be outputting only points. We are currently having a lot of cases where outputting generated meshes alongside instanced points would be very beneficial.
Is there are recommended way to output both generated meshes alongside instanced points? - I've tried with grouping, but with no good result.
Do you mean like using a merge node? I attached a super simple example (instancing_with_mesh.hda). The points with unity_instance attribute must be a point cloud, but it shouldn't interfere with regular generated output when they are merged.
Somewhat related to this, I found an issue where instances were duplicated (and not properly parented) in some cases while creating a test HDA for this. If you are experiencing this, try updating to Houdini 18.5.638. I attached the example HDA I used for reference.
