use image sequence not working?

how can i get an image texture sequence to work in vray? as soon as i enable “use image sequence” in the 2d file node it renders without a texture. the sequence plays fine in the viewport.

naming convention is : example.000.tif

I tried searching but have not found a solution. using 3.35 nightly

What the build number and date of the 3.35 nightly that you’re using?
You can get those from the first lines of the Maya Output window.

V-Ray for Maya version 3.35.01, revision 26724 from Apr 9 2016

I am still not able to do this. this should literally take me 5 seconds to do and its been two days. The one thing I have noticed is anything past frame 100 works.
however if i change the expression to counter this by adding 100 (file1.frameExtension=frame +100; ) it still does not work. If i change 001 to 1 it works.
however this seems like a big bug on vrays part.

The bad news is that it’s a bug. The good news is that we’re already working on it. I’ll update the thread once it’s fixed.

… disregard, Alex keyboard seems to be faster than mine :slight_smile: