Rendering packed/instanced volumes in Karma

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I'm experimenting with karma in Houdini 19 and attempting to render a cloudscape scene I was previously rendering with Arnold. I can't seem to get it to render any volumes that are instanced with the native houdini instancer or packed primitives from a copy to points.

I'm assuming that it's just not supported yet?

I can see in the scene graph that all the volumes are coming in with the sop import but they just don't render and switching the "Packed Primitives" switch to the various options has an affect on the scene graph, but doesn't help them render.

I was able to render them with the instancer LOP node in the stage, but I was hoping to not have to re-create my entire setup using that.
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Just wanted to reply in case anyone else comes across this issue.

It seems to be fixed in 21.0.700. Not sure when exactly it was fixed, but it works now!
Edited by smbell - May 21, 2026 13:26:26
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