Luca Pataracchia

have a look at the attached file. It goes over the basic functionality of the point intstancer, scatter instances and copy to points

making use of compile blocks: https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/houdini-16-masterclass-compiled-sops/ [www.sidefx.com] will make things faster and save you ram. It's particularly helpful when using foreach blocks.

the instance lop allows you to use a path attributes to choose the path in the scene graph tree of you want to instance.

From the docs:
"Path Attribute

Use the value of a string attribute to select the prototype by path."