Hi guys, I am setting up my usd rope right after my rendersettings node in my USD project.
I set my ouput to xxx.$F4.exr as usual when outside of solaris and I do the same in the USD rop. But it overwrites the first frame for each frame it is rendering.
BUT the USD files are written correctly in their unique per frame folder. Any idea what causes this behavior ?

Thanks,

Tanguy

Can you share a hip file? Depending on where exactly you're specifying $F4you may need to escape it with a backslash (i.e., \$F4), but in those places we generally try to make this clear in the parm's tooltip and/or other UI messaging.

Hey Rob ! the \ did the trick. Interesting. My syntax was the following:
/mnt/qnap/Clients/_BlackCrown/xxxxxxxxx/Renders/turnTable/001/$OS.$F4.exr

and it was overwriting the first frame.
With:
/mnt/qnap/Clients/_BlackCrown/xxxxxxxxx/Renders/turnTable/001/$OS\$F4.exr

Works.
why is the need to use a \ ?

Thank you,

Tanguy

tanguybc
why is the need to use a \ ?

I don't remember the exact details, but there are times you want $Fto be expanded immediately, and times you want the evaluation deferred. The \ accomplishes the latter.