Base or Container outputs as a TOP without adding a null

Hi,

In an effort to make a complex network more readable I’m grouping operators into logical units.

I’m facing a problem inside a Base named “Sources” which is used by a Geo to reference its texture instances. The Base contains a series of TOP subnetworks consisting mainly of MovieIns, Texts and Rectangles composited together and who’s final nulls are all named src1, src2, src3 etc. The Geo’s instancetex parameter refers to these as ‘Sources/src[1-24]’. This works fine but when I try grouping the TOP subnetworks into Bases or Containers following the same naming convention (Sources/srcN) they don’t get picked up as textures anymore. I have to add a null after each Base or Container in order for it to work.

Any way of getting rid of these extraneous nulls?

you have to reference an actual TOP in the instancetex parameter, not a Base COMP.

so if you place an out1 TOP in every Base Comp as final TOP, your parameter can be something like Sources/src[1-24]/out1
this assumes every Base COMP in Sources is named src1, src2, src3, etc.

Ahhhhh! Feels so much better!

Thanks!