Hey all,

So just wondering if anyone has managed to stop a file sequence node from being time dependant when reading in the cache?

One example I have is if I import an alembic which has been exported as one file (eg. ocean sim), it's non time dependant. However say I then export that as a sequence so the files are lighter to read in, my graph will be time dependant. Same for any other file types.

Has anyone found a way around this at all?

Cheers!

If you append TimeShift and instead of expression set value to a single frame it will make geo time independent

You an also just Kill the expression of Alembic SOP frame parameter

Is this a solaris question? Normally when reading an alembic the reference or sublayer nodes are used. This shouldn't cause a time dependency in the graph.

Thanks for the feedback. I figured out it was more that the usd wasn't reading the file sequence I had published. So a bit of a different issue and I started another thread.