Hey, I'm working on an Island Generator for a portfolio piece and I'd like to ask someone with more experience in Houdini if they know of a way to display point attributes in an HDA's parameters. I have these three float attributes assigned to a point that calculates the import scale settings for Unreal's landscape system. I'd like to have them visually available from within the HDAs parameters so that I don't need to switch between Houdini and Unreal to view the information. I assume that the Data or Label parameters are used for something like this, but I don't know/haven't used these parameters before.

If anyone would be willing to share information or solved a similar issue in the past please let me know! It's not catastrophic if I can't figure this out, but I'd rather not leave a problem like this unsolved while I'm learning Houdini.

I don't think you can import points into UE, only actual geometry (UE won't cook an HDA with just points as there's nothing there) - you can get position information from generated geometry (like copytopoints with a simple box) in blueprints (get position from actor etc). That's how I did it in the past.

I've attached an example file, see if it can help.
The idea is to use a Python Sop inside your HDA, so every time the HDA cooks, the pythons sop would write the attrib values to parameters of the HDA.



NOTE:
It works for one point only.
For more points, the setup would be more complicated.

Alternatively, use expressions in a Font SOP to show attribute values.