What you guys think? wouldn't that be useful?
Is something I find myself doing all the time… it would be cool if the merge node does it automatically. Particularly because sometimes the geometry being merge does not necessarily have any rule to break them apart later.

Nico.

Typically you could use group nodes etc. but I see where you are coming from.
I am thinking, we should be able to make HDAs with multi-inputs (so we can plug in infinite number of nodes XD ). That would allow us to make custom merge nodes and much more.

You could do this in many ways in Houdini. I personally like the ‘name’ or id attribute. But my point is that is such a common thing to do with merge, that it could be useful to have it embedded in the merge SOP.

Maybe the merge sop could get the option to pack when merging.