applying arbitrary amount of random textures per primitive

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I need to apply an arbitrary amount of textures (randomly named from a folder) onto different (packed) prims. Is there a way to feed a string attribute (the texture path/filename) into a filenode?

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Yes, you could use “<attr_name>” in ImageFile filename parameter.

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@chakarov thanks for you reply. I can’t seem to make that work. I tested it with mantra and a bind node, so the attribute is there. Just to make sure I don’t get the syntax wrong: my attribute is @test . Do I need to write <test> or <@test> (tried both). also this is a primitive attribute (which should be fine I guess).

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Sorry, I completely forgot, you should force attribute to be exported via “V-ray Object Properties” tab.
check the example file
texByAttribute.zip (617 KB)