then you can render instances procedurally in Arnold
if you want to render in other engines you gotta use a replicator but that defeats the point of procedural – until they get an SDK out, you gotta use arnold for that matter
you gotta use this guy in Houdini to output the pts correctly
and write them as .vdb
the .hip just in case
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