Geometry Nodes: remove incorrect assert

It is perfectly valid that an attribute does not exist and cannot be created.
For example, this can happen when a mesh does not contain any vertices.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/nodes/geometry/nodes/node_geo_point_separate.cc b/source/blender/nodes/geometry/nodes/node_geo_point_separate.cc
index 066b2952111..5f9d208a440 100644
--- a/source/blender/nodes/geometry/nodes/node_geo_point_separate.cc
+++ b/source/blender/nodes/geometry/nodes/node_geo_point_separate.cc
@@ -84,19 +84,15 @@ static void move_split_attributes(const GeometryComponent &in_component,
     const CustomDataType data_type = bke::cpp_type_to_custom_data_type(attribute->cpp_type());
     const AttributeDomain domain = attribute->domain();
 
-    /* Don't try to create the attribute on the new component if it already exists. Built-in
-     * attributes will already exist on new components by definition. It should always be possible
-     * to recreate the attribute on the same component type. Also, if one of the new components
-     * has the attribute the other one should have it too, but check independently to be safe. */
+    /* Don't try to create the attribute on the new component if it already exists (i.e. has been
+     * initialized by someone else). */
     if (!out_component_a.attribute_exists(name)) {
       if (!out_component_a.attribute_try_create(name, domain, data_type)) {
-        BLI_assert(false);
         continue;
       }
     }
     if (!out_component_b.attribute_exists(name)) {
       if (!out_component_b.attribute_try_create(name, domain, data_type)) {
-        BLI_assert(false);
         continue;
       }
     }