Hello, I have an object sequence and I need some help controlling when the sequence is played back. I've tried some expressions in the file sop but nothing seems to work. Can someone point me where to a solution? Thanks!
TD

can you post some more info about what “nothing seems to work” means?

for example this
$HIP/geo/object_`padzero(4,clamp($F-50,0,100))`.obj
will play obj sequence from frame 50 to 150 and hold first and last object outside that range

the sequence on disc for this example is
$HIP/geo/object_0000.obj
…
$HIP/geo/object_0100.obj

you can also use Timeblend SOP and Timeshift SOP for this purpose

Thanks for your help tamte. I was typing in the expression wrong. Your example will help me nicely. Thanks!

you can also do this rather easily with the time based sops (time shift I think? Maybe time warp?)