Potential change in visibility for point instancing when using Scene Index pipeline

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1

It looks like when using UsdImagingPiPrototypePropagatingSceneIndex, pointinstancer prototypes now live under the original prototype location (whereas previously they lived under the pointinstancer). I assume as a result, they now inherit invisibility from a parent scope.

Concretely, when not using the Stage Scene Index pipeline, the following USD snippet results in a visible instance of the sphere; when using the new pipeline the instance is invisible.

def Scope "prototypes"
{
    token visibility = "invisible"
    def Sphere "sphere"
    {
        double radius = 1
    }
}

def PointInstancer "instancer"
{
    point3f[] positions = [(0, 0, 0)]
    int[] protoIndices = [0]
    rel prototypes = </prototypes/sphere>
}

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Is this an expected change? A bug I should log?

2

I’m being bold and saying “feels like a bug” :slight_smile:

3

Thanks for filing, Rob! Yes, it does seem like a bug. We’ll investigate!