hello

I have a very simple scene from one the tutorials and I want to render to point cloud.
there is a scatter node in the geometry container.
It renders fine. I mean no big deal … file size .. everything's fine.

but file node doesn't read it, there is no point in it .. whereas the render does and nothing is wrong in my eyes.
please look at it and tell what is wrong because It is frustrating for me .

thank you in advance

I did a few test with other geometries..

like a sphere, box,… and a bunch of other Geo's.
there is no problem with them.
but this particular file .. I can't find the reason.
please if you find any solution or any suggestion let me know.

thank you for your time.

Seems like pc format doesn't support all of the Houdini's data such as Attributes and Point's Group.

If you delete Point's group and metaCapture attribute in your project , you can write these points to the pc file perfectly.

however I don't know why you wanna write these point's to the pc format !

I usually use Houdini native format (bgeo) for writing and reading both primitives and points from/to the disk , because bgeo format support all of the Houdini's data such as Groups , attributes , Volume's resolution and etc perfectly . :idea:

I fixed your project , check this : :wink:

it works perfect.
thank you very much juker!
you are my savior… :wink:

writing to .pc would be completely pointless if pcopen node can read data from .bgeo files..

ps: I checked .bgeo format and apparently It works fine!! .. efficient and easy.