Hi All
I am caching geo out of maya with subframes

the formating i am using for frame numbers is myGeoCache.0101.1.obj

how do i get a file node to read this as valid frame numbers?
I have been trying the following expression to no avail:

myGeoCache.`pythonexprs(“%06.1f” % hou.expandStringAtFrame('$FF'))`.obj

ideally i could just use a python expression but I am not having much luck
any ideas?
thanks in advance

I have solved this issue

this is the crazy expression that i came up with:

myGeoCache.`padzero(4,floor($FF))`.`ifs(strmatch(“*.*”,$FF),substr($FF, 4, 4),“0”)`.obj

my main issue was that when using non-integer frames in houdini, frame 101.0 is called 101 with no decimals, i had to use the ifs expression!

You can also just multiply the frame number by, like, 100 for write and read.

eg. myfile.`int($FF*100)`.bgeo

thank you jason, this is what i have settled on thanks to yourself and jenny at sesi support. it supports two digits of decimal places

cache.`pythonexprs(“'%04d.%02d' % (int(hou.frame()),int(hou.frame()*100)%100)”)`.obj

Thanks Sam for this great tip

I'm using Houdini 17 and had to change the quotations to the other way around. guessing they changed it at some point. Just thought id mention if anyone has issues.

cache.`pythonexprs('“%04d.%02d” % (int(hou.frame()),int(hou.frame()*100)%100)')`.obj