Pre/post behavior with 'missing' files.

[philstopford]

I was advised to post here. I'm using the V-ray modo plugin and have a VDB sequence that I have shaded. It's a fixed length sequence of 150 frames, with the end of the sequence coming to a standstill. As such, I can make use of this with 'load nearest if missing' to hold the volume into later frames, as desired.

However, I also want to have a number of these in the scene, with each instance of this volume grid starting at a different time (frame). This is a bit of a problem because the 'load nearest if missing' picks up the start of the sequence in all of those early frames where I don't want anything. I can hand-animated/key around this, but it would be convenient to have pre/post 'missing' behavior, or some other mechanism to more easily control this, I think.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey,

Indeed, 'Load nearest...' would fill both the pre- and post- frames. For now manually animating the frame indices in 'Direct' mode is the way to go, and we could either break Load Nearest into a Pre- and Post- params, or add a different play mode.

Thanks for the suggestion!