I tried to use a animated texture. I am pointing to the correct frame via $F. The expression gets evaluated correctly but the texture is missing. when I "hardcode" the framenumber into the string the texture will be found.
please provide a method to use an animated texture with an 'image' node.
No matter what format, It doesn't read animated texture.
thank you
$F is the method, users do it all the time
had a very similar problem to this, Arnold/ Houdini will bug in the IPR render and tell you that you cant use animated expressions inside a VEX network. Promoting the input didn't solve the issue.
What worked for me was rendering to disk. It just rendered to disk completely fine.