I have shattered an object, so i have the pieces names to work with, but i cant seem to get a fully functioning random deletion node network working. I've tried it with a by-connection for loop that would randomly delete a piece per cycle based on a threshold, but that only ever deleted all or none of the pieces.

I'm still very new with Houdini, so i'm probably missing something simple… but i'm sure there's a better way, as well. A short VEX snippet in an attribute wrangle maybe? Just need something to randomly delete pieces of geometry by name/piece number.

You can use something like this in a primwrangle:

ohh nice! i hadnt seen that random_shash before, that should do it, thanks much!