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Can I hook an octane Scatter Node and somehow plug in into a mesh and then import a csv file and plug it into the scatter node.... all within Maya???

Thanks

Forgive if this has been answered before... I have trouble finding things within the forum.

Peter

p3taoctane wrote:Can I hook an octane Scatter Node and somehow plug in into a mesh and then import a csv file and plug it into the scatter node.... all within Maya???

Thanks

Forgive if this has been answered before... I have trouble finding things within the forum.

Peter

Hi Pete,

You mean this option is by default just change global to scatter.

Thanks man
I am wondering where you plug in the csv file to this scatter node though?

Thanks

Peter

Any ideas if this is doable?

JimStar??

Hi Peter,

I don't think there is any way you can use a csv file to distribute instances in the maya plugin. You need to scatter or place the instances using maya's tools and then the plugin most probably creates the scatter node that the engine needs during scene translation.

The geo type scatter is just a proxy type like movable or reshapable proxy but has the advantage of only sending the geo to the card on the first frame so you don't need to re-load non animated instances per frame when rendering an animation.

I also don't understand why questions like this keep going un answered by Otoy. It's their job to provide support of this nature and it has been sadly lacking with the Maya plugin lately.

T.

Thanks T
Appreciate how much you help out users. I am assuming Jim Star is buried with 3.0 stuff but lately he has been a little MIA.

Peter

Nothing automatic in maya for cvs files.
But you can easily parse this file with a script.

You can do something like this


{
//here write the correct path
string $filename = "c:/file.cvs";
int $fileId = `fopen $filename "r"`;
while (!`feof $fileId`)
{
string $nextLine = `fgetline $fileId`;
// tokenize the line - we should get 12 floats
string $tokens[];
tokenize $nextLine " " $tokens;
float $a = $tokens[0];
float $b = $tokens[1];
float $c = $tokens[2];
float $d = $tokens[3];
float $e = $tokens[4];
float $f = $tokens[5];
float $g = $tokens[6];
float $h = $tokens[7];
float $i = $tokens[8];
float $j = $tokens[9];
float $k = $tokens[10];
float $l = $tokens[11];
// here add the command wich will use the 12 float of the octane matrix
}
fclose $fileId;
}