How to Fire Periodically in an Image Generator?

For the Image Generator protocol, how should I make something that behaves like Fire Periodically?

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Just discovered the bug report, Strange behaviour “Fire Periodically” when rendering. Is this related? Based on Jaymie’s tutorial on the Image Generator protocol, I thought Fire Periodically was expected to behave this way, especially when rendering out to movies? Perhaps this could be related in general to @George_Toledo 's feature request, Time Mode/Evaluation Changes?

@alexmitchellmus’s workaround worked for me.

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To clarify, that’s from Strange behaviour “Fire Periodically” when rendering.

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Another option is Snap Value -> Increased (as mentioned on Image Downloading + Rutt Etra).

If you don’t need an indexed output leave out the +1, I was reading an index (cheep way of changing a composition variable). And the whole modulo thing.

Yeah, I always get caught off guard when nodes behave differently depending on rendering mode. I will get used to it!

@jstrecker, what do you think of having a warning similar to node feedback if Vuo notices you are using non-image-protocol-friendly nodes in protocol mode? Instead of in the node blurb.

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