Point Instancer lights transform

[dawid6FHRZ]

Hi,

I have a bunch of lights inside some building assets and each light have their own transform. When I instance that asset using Point Instancer lights are also instanced but transform of each light get reset and is at the center of the asset so inside the building.

Is that a known bug, missing feature? Is there an ETA on supporting that? Are there any workarounds for now?

Tested on houdini-20.5.410 htoa-6.3.6.0.

Karma seems to support that correctly in H20.5 not in H20 though

Best

Dawid

[Stephen.Blair]

Sorry, what's asset? A usd file loaded as a sublayer, a sop import?

Instancing just a point light works, I just need to know what to test next...

[dawid6FHRZ]

Hi Stephen,

I attached 2 images showing my reproduction scene. Just 2 lights inside model hierarchy scattered on a distorted plane.

Please let me know if you need more information

simple pig asset with 2 lights, red and blue moved above the model and each on one sideScatter showing pink when both lights transform resets and both lights end up in the same place

[Stephen.Blair]

Hi

What's your prototype primitive? /world/gprim/environment/pig ?

I'm finding Karma doesn't work either, depending on what I put as the prototype primitive (for example, in my scene, "/test" works, but "/test/*" doesn't)

But with Arnold I don't get any lights at all in the render when I use "/test" as the prototype primitive, so definitely looks like an issue.

[Stephen.Blair]

In my scene, the point lights come out with intensity 0, but are in the right position.

Can you share your pig test scene, since you are getting something different?