Hi, nowdays 3d gaussian splat is very popular and i want to process / render it inside houdini because houdini's powerful geometry processing ability.
But i can't render point as a ellipse, just a sphere or circle, so is it possible to render point as ellipse with scale or other attribute?
And control the opacity of ellipse from center to edge?

You can always copy an ellipse to your points. That should inherit any scale and color attributes your material can extract. I'd just copy a UV grid to your points, make them always facing the camera, and then leverage an image map with an opacity map to handle the fade from center required.

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You can always copy an ellipse to your points. That should inherit any scale and color attributes your material can extract. I'd just copy a UV grid to your points, make them always facing the camera, and then leverage an image map with an opacity map to handle the fade from center required.

thanks! another thing i want to know does houdini can set render pipline's "alpha blend" factor? such as "oneMinusSrcAlpha".