Chris Rydalch

Yeah Component Builder is intentionally simple/broad. Usually what I've seen is people do when they need mixed subdivs/meshes, is to append an Edit Mesh LOP [www.sidefx.com] after Component Geometry, to mark their subdivs. In the Scene Graph Tree, if you RMB on meshes, you can select Edit Primitive with New Node, which will create a Mesh LOP in edit mode.

You could also set osd_schemeSOP Attribute to define which parts are subdivs. We'd like to make this easier in a future release, but see this doc here for more info about the prim attributes: https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/solaris/sop_import.html#subd [www.sidefx.com]

I can't imagine why the ROP's frame range would be ignored, in favor of the timeline set in the hip file; seems like a bug to be logged.

Seems to be working in 20.5.236 on my system. Try the latest version, and log a bug if it's still not working. Maybe there are OS/Driver/GPU specific bugs somewhere.