Hi there!
I´ve got some exerience in setting up crowds from several projects. Our studio switched to full usd workflow at the current project.
I found some tutorials of moving crowds from sop to lop-land which works totally fine for me.
But I wonder if there might be a more efficient way to do this, a way to keep all the connections of a crowd system down to referenced agents. The final crowd usd-file would decrease drastically. I know there is a usd/lops option in defining the agent, but as soon as you touch sops, the reference connection breaks.
I think, the solution might be to simulate in sops (as intended) and then transfer all the information to lops, but no agent geometry, just points with attributes. Then, in solaris, join these attributes with usd agents file-loaded at lops level.

Is there any possibility achieving this now? Or is there a planned node-solution in upcoming houdini-versions?

Cheers,

Markus