How to start a cached sim a specific frame?

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I have a simulation that I cached out that is 90 frames long. I am using a popnet to specify the exact frame that I want the cached simulation to start but, what happens is it wants to start at that frame of the cache. So if a say, start at frame 100 nothing happens because the cache is 90 frames long. How can I get the cache to play from the beginning at frame 100? Thank you for any help on this!

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You can save out an inital state (or frame 90 as a .sim file) and use that as the first frame by putting that into the inital state box.

Otherwise cache your particles out and feed whatever frame you want into the source and let the existing attributes drive the particles ( v, age, etc )
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Thanks Sugleris. I used the cache idea and it worked. Thank you.
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