Igor Churakov

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HDK Multithreading over point groups(one thread - one group) July 10, 2026, 1:05 p.m.

Hi Umang_Raj. Thank you for the explanation. That is more clear now. I guess that won't work in my case then. I'm now thinking that my initial question was a bit misleading.
I have point groups. pt_group_0 pt_group_1 etc. Each group has mutually exclusive points. I want to run some logic on each group of points but in parallel and so they don't overlap each other. So one thread takes care of one group(as an example).
Creating GA_Range using those groups works but it contains only one range at a time. How to run over all those ranges?

HDK Logic behind attributeReorient July 9, 2026, 12:50 p.m.

Hi everyone. Does anyone know the logic behind the node "attributeReorient" ?

I'm trying to write same thing in HDK but I get different result.
What I'm doing is getting rotation matrix from Rest position. For that I'm using for:
x_axis - position of point 0 of the primitive - position of point 1 of the primitive.
y_axis - computeNormal(primitive)
z_axis - cross(x_axis ,y_axis );
building rest matrix from those vectors.
Same thing for the animated position.
Transforming point position by those matrices.
Then promoting values to points.
When geometry is moving but not deforming at all looks the same if I would use "attributeReorient"
But once geometry is deforming then values go off.
I assume it has something to do with interpolation.

I would appreciate if someone could give any advice on that.

HDK Multithreading over point groups(one thread - one group) July 9, 2026, 12:37 p.m.

Hi johnmather. Thank you for the link. I've actually seen this but I can't figure out how to build 'Range' out of point groups or it can be Array or a list of Ranges ?

Thank you