Hi,

I've been playing around with instancing and I didn't manage to change the animation start frame on a per instance basis.

For example, if you instantiate a cube with an animation (keyframes or bgeo sequence) onto particles, all the instances play the animation the same way.

How can you change the animation start frame on a per instance basis to randomize things a bit (be it keyframes or bgeo cache)?

Thank you in advance.


Ryuji

you can use timeshift sop with stamp() expression.

Hi,

Thank you for your answer.

But I couldn't make it work. I tried try stamping some custom attributes but no luck. I'm not sure what I should stamp.

Isn't the stamp function only working with copies?

Any other idea to change the animation start frame on a per instance basis?



Ryuji

see attached file

Thank you Jeff for the example.

Unfortunately, I still don't see how to use this with instances…

I'm new to Houdini so please, bear with me.



Ryuji

Here is the scene file I'm working on.

There is an animation on a box, instanced on some points.

How can I offset the starting frame so all the boxes don't rotate the same way?

Thank you in advance.


Ryuji