Hello, Im doing a heightfield tutorial and Im following everything correctly it seems, rebuilt it several times,

create height field with painted mask etc. and then I bring in an alembic tree which apparently consists of a trunk and foliage.

when I height field scatter the alembic across the heightfield it separates the trunk from the branches...I tried converting the alembic to a polygon object but that kind of breaks houdini.

any insight to this?

I'm only on my phone now, but it sounds like you need to pack the tree before scattering. Then the separate pieces should become one.

Heileif
I'm only on my phone now, but it sounds like you need to pack the tree before scattering. Then the separate pieces should become one.

you are a beautiful human being, they didnt go over this in the tutorial but that worked perfectly