Is there a sops way to bake opengl render data to points? I vaguely remember that there used to be a vop or possibly vex function to render opengl views from an agent’s viewpoint but I can’t find it again. Something like what we can do with occlusion related functions but with the full opengl experience, without having to go through baking texture maps.

Fx_enjoyer
I vaguely remember that there used to be a vop or possibly vex function to render opengl views from an agent’s viewpoint but I can’t find it again.

You may be referring to sensor nodes and vex functions, like sensor_panorama_create, etc..
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/vop/sensor_panorama_create.html [www.sidefx.com]
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/vex/functions/sensor_panorama_create.html [www.sidefx.com]

Nice, that seems to be it. Such a neat function but unfortunately it appears to be very unstable.