Allow to use custom class as the instance component and/or owner actor.

[SalvatoSC]

Hi!
Currently: when you create an instancer the owner actor of the instances is AActor and it contains instancers from a hard coded selection (ISM, HISM, Foliage etc.)

Request:

1. it would be great if we could use our custom instance component class (for example MyCustomISM, MyCustomFoliage)
2. It would also be great if the owner actor could use our own actor class, instead of the default AActor (for example MyInstancerOwnerActor).

Thank you and wish you the best!

[AdrianPanGithub]

Hi, @SalvatoSC,
Yeah, this should be a necessary feature, once I was planning to do it.
However, sorry that, due to my physical issue, I will not have plenty of time to implement this feature,
So I decide to fully Open-Source this repository when the next Houdini 21 production-ready build(maybe 21.0.49x ?) release.
so that everyone could modify the source code by ourselves, including adding this feature.

At this point, we could still achieve this, by implementing a custom houdini output builder, to generate your own uneal actor or component, see HoudiniOutputZoneShape or HoudiniOutputInstancedActors

[SalvatoSC]

Thank you for the answer and your contribution. Looking forward to it, and once again, wishing the best for your health.