simon lucas

Interesting that I was quite close with my own xgroup, but I was trying to take the output of the userdata back around to the Add node - which just would not work. I can see now that you have two references to the userdata, which I think is here I was going wrong. Thank-you again for you helpful posts

Thank-you for this too. It's an interesting pure expresso solution. I will study it.

Hi Jed. I had come the conclusion that a Python node might work this morning, so your post with the technique for setting the global variable on frame 0 were very useful. Thank-you! I will mark your post as the solution. Addendum. I just saw your new post with the example file, too. Thank-you again.

Hi. I want to use a frame event to increment a value which i can use to position an object. I will need to independently pause the process, so I cannot link the frame number directly to the value, as I do not want that value to increase whilst the process has been frozen. I have tried setting and getting the x position of an object from an Add node, but the value of the x position cannot be fed back into the Add node for the next increment. The same appears to be true with using a userdata node as storage. I'm enjoying learning c4d xpresso but originally come from a coding background, so I'm puzzled how to achieve this. I have also looked for examples but cannot find any extant xpresso examples online. Thank-you.