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Hi there I was following some of the Entagma tutorials on SOP solvers and I came across a minor problem shown above. How do I get the SOP solver to function on the first frame? Currently it is saying that Vdbadvect1 requires a vector although the VDBanalysis is plugged in and set to Gradient, it seems to work every now and then when I disconnect it and hook it up. After multiple attempts and adding a switch node to Input one with condition $F==1 and switching to the previous frame it still doesn't work..

Thanks!

Hi there everyone!
I am working on an effect that I think is relatively simple and I'm learning Houdini as I go therefore
it's taking me some time to practically implement it using the Houdini workflow
Here is my effect
A thin strip (plane representing a film strip) is continuously moving downwards. I have an object that
slices this thin strip, the thin strip breaks into two and overlaps as the top segment is still moving downards

I have attached my current progress but I am facing some problems:
1 ) How do I break the wire solver dynamically , or don't I?
2 ) My current setup (attached) uses a Wire Solver that drives Geo using a Wire Capture, is it even
possible to have the Geo follow the wire solver once it breaks?

Thanks and best regards