So I have my space ship flying through space and now I need to add my live action plate to the inside of the spaceship.

I guess I need to place a grid inside the ship, just behind the slightly transparent windows of the ship. I know how to add a still image to the grid, but how do I project an image sequence to the grid?

Or if this is not the correct way to do this, what would be a better alternative?

Many thanks in advance.

Lee

You can use $F in the filename.

Have a look here: http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/render/expressions [sidefx.com]

When I load the image sequence into the texture, I get this error:

mantra: Unable to load texture ‘SClients/Somnium/Plates/2D/Plates/1_Ship/Event_Version 1_0001_0001/PJG/cockpit_01_00000001.jpg’

$F is the Frame#
so on frame 1, $F = 1 etc
cockpit_01_$F8.jpg - means Frame(padded to 8 digits - 00000001)
you could rename your images starting from 1
or try this info on this page:
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/render/expressions [sidefx.com]

so something like: cockpit_01_`$F+573847`.jpg (that's the current Frame# and add 573847 = 573848 -> the first frame of your image sequence.