I'm trying to learn how to use the Biomes toolkit, and I'm running into problems with the Instance node. It's very, very slow at best and crashes Houdini often. Switching from point cloud to bounding boxes or vice versa often crashes Houdini entirely.

I've even tried caching the point clouds, caching the tree geometry, which I've decimated to cut the poly count, and nothing seems to be effective.

I tried creating a new Instance node and set it to display as bounding boxes before connecting it, then tried to import that to Solaris to see if it would render, but just importing the SOP to Solaris leads to a huge CPU load with nothing to show -- no points, no bounding boxes, and I can't interact with the viewport.

Any advice? Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks!