Long story to explain why I need something like this. I've gotten way deeper in DOPs than I was expecting for this project. I need a way to deactivate a static object on a certain frame. Can't use an RBD (part of the long story and I'm using an RBD for something else).

How to I go about something like that? I tried plugging in enable solver node before static solver and it didn't take it.

It said connection to input 0 is the wrong type.

I also tried an active value node. Someone else helped with activation expressions because I don't know much about expressions and VEX yet.

Any suggestions are really appreciated!

you can use Switch DOP to switch Static Object to a Null DOP at some frame

Thank you for responding! I'm not sure how to do that. I want to deactivate the object at frame 95.

Would I attach the Switch DOP to the static object and write the expression if($F>94, 0, 1) in the select input? or wher edo I write it? I attached a photo of my node tree. I havent created a set up with switch and null DOPs before.

Not sure if the attachment worked the first time. Trying to submit it again

yes, whatever you have now, just plug Null DOP into second input of switch1
and put expression: $F>94into Select Input parameter

NOTE: and I know that you see everyone appending Static Solvers in the setups, but you really don't need them, you have 2 of them and you can delete both if you want, will not change a thing on your setup

It worked! Thank you so much for the help!

@Tamte, I tried using this but for the other way around (meaning I want to start with a null and bring in the static geo after a certain frame), however, this doesn't work. How can I bring in static geo during sim?

oh no worries, got it working by editing the groundplanes object "active" param to always be 1 or set it to be 1 on an appropriate frame (dive into the ground plane DOP and edit the empty object DOP active param)