slice retrieval for cache and texture 3D TOPs

Hmm… okay, so I don’t know if this qualifies for new Python or something larger - BUT, in essence, what I’m after is a better python means of accessing slices in a cache or texture 3D TOP.

The pragmatic example would be something like this - say I have a list COMP that I want to use thumbnails for - my understanding is that right now I’d have to consider something like, cache all of my images, use a replicator to with a cache select TOP to extract all of the slices, then set up up list COMP to point to a given op.

Something like this:
base_list_COMP_with_bg.tox (4.99 KB)

What I’d like instead is to be able to indicate the slice / depth with python. Similar to the mechanism for retrieving a specific sample with CHOP references:

op('someCacheTOP')[depthAsInt] op('someTexture3DTOP')[depthAsInt] op('someTexture3DTOP')[depthAsFloat]