Cameron White

For motion paths, the triggers are represented just as point groups on the motion path points so you could use other SOPs to generate the triggers if you need something very custom. Otherwise, you could also use the random delay options, etc to produce some variation between agents

I'm not sure about the crash you mentioned, but you would need to reset the thread-specific values before your parallel loop since you have them in a static variable

However, I'd recommend looking at using UTparallelReduce (or UTparallelDeterministicReduce for accumulating floating-point values) which are designed for this type of pattern

In the next Houdini release there are some new options on the Agent Layer SOP to remove shapes / layers from the agent definition. Currently that could likely be done in Python

Another option though, depending on your workflow, would just be to cache the joints on the USD side if that's what you need in the end anyways. e.g. using a SOP Import LOP with `Agents` set to `Create SkelAnimations`