Hello. I'm very new to Houdini and couldn't figure out how can I copy geometry along normal of points.
What am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance.

You have to give your sphere a normal node and set it to “add normals to points” before you scatter.

and if you are confused by the orientations you receive:
your scattered instances will use their z-axis as the “up-direction”

Cheers
CYTE

to align the normal to y, use quaternions instead.

After you have points with N copied from the sphere as CYTE said, use an attrib vop or wrangle to create orient from the dihedral (align vop) from {0,1,0} to N.


or in vops: (N)->1 { signature: “Angle Axis”, from: , to: input1 } (matx)->0 { name: orient, type: vector4 }