You can take it a little further and use the fighter's name as a text macro in the path. That way when you change the fighter name, it will automatically change the path to the correct headshot. The headshot file name would have to be letter for letter the same as the fighter name. It's just fun to try. One thing I would note, instead of %name% use @name@. That's a text macro instead of a Datalinq key. (edit) I see that's basically what you are trying to do. I didn't read all the responses.
Original Message:
Sent: 12-29-2025 06:11
From: Juha Koivisto
Subject: Xpression - Use Datalinq with Dynamic Material
Yes, that will work. You can use either a local file path or a URL pointing to an online image. As long as the path or URL is valid and accessible, XPression can pull it in via DataLinq.
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Juha Koivisto
Tampere
Finland
Original Message:
Sent: 12-29-2025 01:34
From: Alejandro Galvan
Subject: Xpression - Use Datalinq with Dynamic Material
Will this work if I write the image path on an Excel Sheet?
I have an Excel Sheet with boxers' BIO information already datalinq to my scenes, but I would like to datalinq their headshots too.
What would you recommend?
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Alejandro Galvan
LA36 LOS ANGELES TV ACCESS
Original Message:
Sent: 03-25-2023 10:00
From: Nicole Schindeldecker
Subject: Xpression - Use Datalinq with Dynamic Material
Hi Omar,
what Juha wrote does the job.
You do not even need to use a text object name. If you import all the players pictures in a material group (_Image will be added) you can datalinq directly to it with the ID and put in Append the _Image as in the picture attached. Cheers Nicole
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Nicole Schindeldecker
FERNSEHGRAFIK
Original Message:
Sent: 03-24-2023 18:10
From: Juha
Subject: Xpression - Use Datalinq with Dynamic Material
Select the "Requery scene datalinqs on data change" option in the DataLinq properties of the Name object to read the scene's dynamic material after the datalinq value changes. That should help.
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Juha Koivisto
Tampere
Finland
Original Message:
Sent: 03-22-2023 17:15
From: Omar
Subject: Xpression - Use Datalinq with Dynamic Material
I'm having trouble getting the Dynamic Material to work on a quad using Datalinq.
For our sports projects we have individual player photos and I want to make a graphic that will grab the name of a specific photo and apply it to the quad. I have a text object Name and in the Dynamic Material setting on the quad I have \Images\@Name@.png so it will find a photo based on whatever the text in the Name text object is and adds .png.
It works fine this way but when I try to link the Name object to Datalinq it stops applying a material. Since this would be used multiple times I wanted to use a Datalinq key so I added one ID and put %ID% in the row datalinq field for the the text object. In sequence view the Name shows the correct text according to the ID key, but it doesn't want to grab the picture.
I attached a sample project with a working manual scene and the non-working Datalinq scene. Also attaching a csv file I used for Datalinq and the 5 pictures I used for testing.
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Omar Reyes
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