Hi,

I’m a total Houdini beginner - so please forgive my basic question.

I have a point cloud from a LiDAR Scan which i successfully modified to my needs with various attribute wrangles. Now I want to render replace each point with either a basic geometry (e.g. cube) or with a generative text (e.g. point ID/number).

So far I can only adjust it to be circles or spheres (under the geometry parameter) but don’t know how I would parse the point array as an input to generate new geometries (or if there’s another approach).

Could somebody tell me how the usual approach to this result would be?

Very best,
Paul

There's a few ways, depending on what your end product will be. But this is the most general:

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/copy/copytopoints.html [www.sidefx.com]
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/copytopoints [www.sidefx.com]

Great – that's exactly what I needed! Thanks!