Alex Majewski

When we set render path in render settings like $HIP/Render/myanimation_$F4.exrit immediately gets expanded to an absolute path in the actual attribute.





So, in the future if we wanted to get that path with python, we would no longer have access to the $F4 variable.

Is there anything that can be done to get a path with a frame variable in any format? $F4, <F4>, ####, anything

Edit: I ended up programming a function that compares start and end frame paths and figures out where the padded frame is.

Hey raincole, I've added updates to my tool [github.com] v1.0.1. I've implemented quickmark-like jumps to network/position. I added a settings menu to turn this behavior on and off.





Initially I just hooked it up to actual quickmarks, but I quickly realized it's going to be problematic because quickmarks store the selection as well, which ruins the whole idea of using Template flags.

You've never really asked for this, so don't feel pressured to use it, but if you do, I hope it helps.

@coccarolla ok I just realized what's wrong. Sorry, I tested it earlier on Linux and that's why it worked, but now as I test it on Windows it indeed does not work. The *wildcard seems to only work in Bash.

I have MINGW64 Git Bash installed on my Windows and I just tried using hotl.exe with a Bash terminal (on Windows) and it finally worked. I haven't tested that single hda yet, but it weighs ~60mb, so half the size of otls/ folder. Just a heads up, if you end up using Bash for this, then you definitely will need to use / type of slashes.