RE: terrain ascii xyz import
many thanks Klemens, between my hacking, and Dan's off-list python genius, we managed to get it working. a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Klemens Kopetzky Sent: 19 April 2013 15:43 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: terrain ascii xyz import Hi Adrian, Recently I had to import some xyz point cloud data as well (for a building though, rather than a terrain) and noticed the same thing. So I literally butchered his great script to import the colours as well (sorry Dan). I am by no means a programmer, but the script worked for me, maybe it works for you too. Just use at your own risk ;-). Regards, Klemens P.S.: Sorry for the attachment everyone. _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of adrian wyer Sent: 18 April 2013 18:21 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: terrain ascii xyz import so the Lidar problem has reared it's ugly head again! Dan, i noticed in your script you are pulling RGBA data and writing to the cache file but it doesn't seem to read into the new cloud... any thoughts? a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of adrian wyer Sent: 24 January 2013 12:41 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: terrain ascii xyz import cheers! in the end, we left the client to deal with their own lidar wrangling, using the lidar software to kick out rudimentary animation i just know in a few weeks they'll come back wanting us to take over hehe be interested to see your results a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Marshall Sent: 24 January 2013 12:33 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: terrain ascii xyz import Hey Adrian, That's really Cool!! Love the style on that!! I'll post a test of what I've done when it's ready. Cheers On 22 January 2013 18:04, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: Hay Chris look forward to seeing the results. here's the test that i spat out using meshlab to importa renamed XYZ data to a random mesh then doing a 'add points at point locations' on the random mesh that meshlab generates http://www.fluid-pictures.com/lidar_test_low.mov colour at vertices is the next step... a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Marshall Sent: 22 January 2013 15:14 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: terrain ascii xyz import OK in the end found a quick 'n dirty solution that was slightly surprising. It was actually possible to shrinkwrap a grid onto the pointcloud. The slight problem with this is that you need to use one of the Closest Vertex/Surface options, for it to work. On terrain that has plenty of elevation, the grid gets deformed across laterally in places. So it was a case of simply scaling the pointcloud to 0.01 in the y, shrinkwrap the grid onto that, freeze, then scale the grid y to 100 again. It needs a little filtering of points, but that works fine. Gives an acceptable result. _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2639/5549 - Release Date: 01/21/13 -- http://mintmotion.co.uk/img/mint.png Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2639/5553 - Release Date: 01/23/13 _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2639/5553 - Release Date: 01/23/13 _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2240 / Virus Database: 2641/5745 - Release Date: 04/14/13
RE: terrain ascii xyz import
so the Lidar problem has reared it's ugly head again! Dan, i noticed in your script you are pulling RGBA data and writing to the cache file but it doesn't seem to read into the new cloud... any thoughts? a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of adrian wyer Sent: 24 January 2013 12:41 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: terrain ascii xyz import cheers! in the end, we left the client to deal with their own lidar wrangling, using the lidar software to kick out rudimentary animation i just know in a few weeks they'll come back wanting us to take over hehe be interested to see your results a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Marshall Sent: 24 January 2013 12:33 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: terrain ascii xyz import Hey Adrian, That's really Cool!! Love the style on that!! I'll post a test of what I've done when it's ready. Cheers On 22 January 2013 18:04, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: Hay Chris look forward to seeing the results. here's the test that i spat out using meshlab to importa renamed XYZ data to a random mesh then doing a 'add points at point locations' on the random mesh that meshlab generates http://www.fluid-pictures.com/lidar_test_low.mov colour at vertices is the next step... a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Marshall Sent: 22 January 2013 15:14 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: terrain ascii xyz import OK in the end found a quick 'n dirty solution that was slightly surprising. It was actually possible to shrinkwrap a grid onto the pointcloud. The slight problem with this is that you need to use one of the Closest Vertex/Surface options, for it to work. On terrain that has plenty of elevation, the grid gets deformed across laterally in places. So it was a case of simply scaling the pointcloud to 0.01 in the y, shrinkwrap the grid onto that, freeze, then scale the grid y to 100 again. It needs a little filtering of points, but that works fine. Gives an acceptable result. _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2639/5549 - Release Date: 01/21/13 -- http://mintmotion.co.uk/img/mint.png Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2639/5553 - Release Date: 01/23/13 _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2639/5553 - Release Date: 01/23/13
RE: terrain ascii xyz import
Hay Chris look forward to seeing the results. here's the test that i spat out using meshlab to importa renamed XYZ data to a random mesh then doing a 'add points at point locations' on the random mesh that meshlab generates http://www.fluid-pictures.com/lidar_test_low.mov colour at vertices is the next step... a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Marshall Sent: 22 January 2013 15:14 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: terrain ascii xyz import OK in the end found a quick 'n dirty solution that was slightly surprising. It was actually possible to shrinkwrap a grid onto the pointcloud. The slight problem with this is that you need to use one of the Closest Vertex/Surface options, for it to work. On terrain that has plenty of elevation, the grid gets deformed across laterally in places. So it was a case of simply scaling the pointcloud to 0.01 in the y, shrinkwrap the grid onto that, freeze, then scale the grid y to 100 again. It needs a little filtering of points, but that works fine. Gives an acceptable result. _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2639/5549 - Release Date: 01/21/13
Re: terrain ascii xyz import
Hey Chris, was that script of any use? Just curious! :) It's quite slow, as I'm sure you've noticed as you said it was a large file! Never could find a way to speed it up. I just put it down to Python being slow in the end... :/ DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: ok thanks guys. I'll see how this goes. I can always break the file down into smaller pieces maybe. Or if Dan's script works well, take a percentage of the point instead. I'll report back! On 7 January 2013 16:51, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.chwrote: oh, all right. If it's huge then this won't work that well I think :( On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I was thinking. Once I get the file into soft, I'll know what I'm dealing with. It's a pretty huge file of points. On 7 January 2013 16:34, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: With that, then you can use ICE on a grid of sufficient points and set up a tree like... Get Point ID and pointcloud getdata -- ID To Location -- .PointPosition -- Set Point Position (Who knows how the terrain is ordered though. It might look horrid.) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? Thanks Chris On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.comwrote: If it’s ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily.*** * ** ** Do you have a sample file? ** ** ** ** Matt ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Marshall *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? ** ** Cheers ** ** Chris ** ** -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- --- Vladimir Jankijevic Technical Direction Elefant Studios AG Lessingstrasse 15 CH-8002 Zürich +41 44 500 48 20 www.elefantstudios.ch --- -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
RE: terrain ascii xyz import
Hey Dan, i gave it a swing, but regardless of my .xyz file formatting, i always get the error message; Error - no points found or not a valid XYZ file!!! have you got an xyz file that works for you, that you caould strip to just a couple of lines so i can see the format? the one i'm trying is like this; 647680.01, 508967.136, 185.622 647680.099, 508967.133, 185.609 647680.124, 508953.779, 184.757 _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Dan Yargici Sent: 09 January 2013 09:34 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: terrain ascii xyz import Hey Chris, was that script of any use? Just curious! :) It's quite slow, as I'm sure you've noticed as you said it was a large file! Never could find a way to speed it up. I just put it down to Python being slow in the end... :/ DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: ok thanks guys. I'll see how this goes. I can always break the file down into smaller pieces maybe. Or if Dan's script works well, take a percentage of the point instead. I'll report back! On 7 January 2013 16:51, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: oh, all right. If it's huge then this won't work that well I think :( On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I was thinking. Once I get the file into soft, I'll know what I'm dealing with. It's a pretty huge file of points. On 7 January 2013 16:34, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: With that, then you can use ICE on a grid of sufficient points and set up a tree like... Get Point ID and pointcloud getdata -- ID To Location -- .PointPosition -- Set Point Position (Who knows how the terrain is ordered though. It might look horrid.) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? Thanks Chris On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If its ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. Do you have a sample file? Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Marshall Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: terrain ascii xyz import Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? Cheers Chris -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- --- Vladimir Jankijevic Technical Direction Elefant Studios AG Lessingstrasse 15 CH-8002 Zürich +41 tel:%2B41%2044%20500%2048%2020 44 500 48 20 www.elefantstudios.ch --- -- http://mintmotion.co.uk/img/mint.png Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk _ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2637/5519 - Release Date: 01/08/13
Re: terrain ascii xyz import
Hi Adrian. I used the data that Chris pasted into his mail to test with and that had no spaces... I use huge regular expression to parse the file for valid point data lines and it doesn't expect spaces. I'll tweak it and send it again if you like... DAN On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:22 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: ** ** ** ** Hey Dan, i gave it a swing, but regardless of my .xyz file formatting, i always get the error message; Error - no points found or not a valid XYZ file!!! ** ** have you got an xyz file that works for you, that you caould strip to just a couple of lines so i can see the format? ** ** the one i'm trying is like this; ** ** 647680.01, 508967.136, 185.622 647680.099, 508967.133, 185.609 647680.124, 508953.779, 184.757 ** ** -- *From:* **softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com** [mailto:** softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com**] *On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici *Sent:* 09 January 2013 09:34 *To:* **softimage@listproc.autodesk.com** *Subject:* Re: terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Hey Chris, was that script of any use? Just curious! :) ** ** It's quite slow, as I'm sure you've noticed as you said it was a large file! ** ** Never could find a way to speed it up. I just put it down to Python being slow in the end... :/ ** ** DAN ** ** ** ** On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: ok thanks guys. I'll see how this goes. I can always break the file down into smaller pieces maybe. Or if Dan's script works well, take a percentage of the point instead. I'll report back! ** ** ** ** On 7 January 2013 16:51, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: oh, all right. If it's huge then this won't work that well I think :( ** ** On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I was thinking. Once I get the file into soft, I'll know what I'm dealing with. It's a pretty huge file of points. ** ** On 7 January 2013 16:34, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote:*** * With that, then you can use ICE on a grid of sufficient points and set up a tree like... Get** **Point** **ID and pointcloud getdata -- ID To Location -- .PointPosition -- Set Point Position ** ** (Who knows how the terrain is ordered though. It might look horrid.) ** ** On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... ** ** Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. ** ** Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. ** ** Hope it helps. ** ** DAN ** ** ** ** On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- ** ** -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 ** ** So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? ** ** Thanks ** ** Chris ** ** ** ** ** ** On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If it’s ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. Do you have a sample file? Matt *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Marshall *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* terrain ascii xyz import Hello, Anyone know how to get
RE: terrain ascii xyz import
if you can be bothered, i know as much about Python as i do about open heart surgery.! it's just testing stuff at the moment, waiting to get some proper Lidar data from the client a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Dan Yargici Sent: 09 January 2013 10:30 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: terrain ascii xyz import Hi Adrian. I used the data that Chris pasted into his mail to test with and that had no spaces... I use huge regular expression to parse the file for valid point data lines and it doesn't expect spaces. I'll tweak it and send it again if you like... DAN On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:22 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: Hey Dan, i gave it a swing, but regardless of my .xyz file formatting, i always get the error message; Error - no points found or not a valid XYZ file!!! have you got an xyz file that works for you, that you caould strip to just a couple of lines so i can see the format? the one i'm trying is like this; 647680.01, 508967.136, 185.622 647680.099, 508967.133, 185.609 647680.124, 508953.779, 184.757 _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Dan Yargici Sent: 09 January 2013 09:34 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: terrain ascii xyz import Hey Chris, was that script of any use? Just curious! :) It's quite slow, as I'm sure you've noticed as you said it was a large file! Never could find a way to speed it up. I just put it down to Python being slow in the end... :/ DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: ok thanks guys. I'll see how this goes. I can always break the file down into smaller pieces maybe. Or if Dan's script works well, take a percentage of the point instead. I'll report back! On 7 January 2013 16:51, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: oh, all right. If it's huge then this won't work that well I think :( On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I was thinking. Once I get the file into soft, I'll know what I'm dealing with. It's a pretty huge file of points. On 7 January 2013 16:34, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: With that, then you can use ICE on a grid of sufficient points and set up a tree like... Get Point ID and pointcloud getdata -- ID To Location -- .PointPosition -- Set Point Position (Who knows how the terrain is ordered though. It might look horrid.) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? Thanks Chris On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If its ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. Do you have a sample file? Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Marshall Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: terrain ascii xyz import Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? Cheers Chris -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: terrain ascii xyz import
Yeah, it's actually quite amazing how slow it is! DAN On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:43 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.comwrote: ** ** ** ** ** it works, but on a 4 million point Lidar scan it's VERY SLOW. hehehe ** ** i found another way to import, renamed the .xyz to .asc opened it in Meshlab, which converts it into an explosion of polygons, export an obj, create an empty point cloud and add points at the point locations of the exploded mesh ** ** bit of a run around, but it's fast ** ** thanks ** ** -- *From:* **softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com** [mailto:** softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com**] *On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici *Sent:* 09 January 2013 10:56 *To:* **softimage@listproc.autodesk.com** *Subject:* Re: terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Try that. ** ** ** ** On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:46 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: if you can be bothered, i know as much about Python as i do about open heart surgery.! it's just testing stuff at the moment, waiting to get some proper Lidar data from the client a -- *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici *Sent:* 09 January 2013 10:30 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: terrain ascii xyz import Hi Adrian. I used the data that Chris pasted into his mail to test with and that had no spaces... I use huge regular expression to parse the file for valid point data lines and it doesn't expect spaces. I'll tweak it and send it again if you like... DAN On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:22 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: Hey Dan, i gave it a swing, but regardless of my .xyz file formatting, i always get the error message; Error - no points found or not a valid XYZ file!!! have you got an xyz file that works for you, that you caould strip to just a couple of lines so i can see the format? the one i'm trying is like this; 647680.01, 508967.136, 185.622 647680.099, 508967.133, 185.609 647680.124, 508953.779, 184.757 -- *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici *Sent:* 09 January 2013 09:34 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: terrain ascii xyz import Hey Chris, was that script of any use? Just curious! :) It's quite slow, as I'm sure you've noticed as you said it was a large file! Never could find a way to speed it up. I just put it down to Python being slow in the end... :/ DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: ok thanks guys. I'll see how this goes. I can always break the file down into smaller pieces maybe. Or if Dan's script works well, take a percentage of the point instead. I'll report back! On 7 January 2013 16:51, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: oh, all right. If it's huge then this won't work that well I think :( On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I was thinking. Once I get the file into soft, I'll know what I'm dealing with. It's a pretty huge file of points. On 7 January 2013 16:34, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote:*** * With that, then you can use ICE on a grid of sufficient points and set up a tree like... Get** **Point** **ID and pointcloud getdata -- ID To Location -- .PointPosition -- Set Point Position (Who knows how the terrain is ordered though. It might look horrid.) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183
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I should add that it was never intended to work with that many points, it's probably slow to even open the PPG right? I wrote it to get the number of points first to display in the PPG... On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, it's actually quite amazing how slow it is! DAN On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:43 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: ** ** ** ** ** it works, but on a 4 million point Lidar scan it's VERY SLOW. hehehe ** ** i found another way to import, renamed the .xyz to .asc opened it in Meshlab, which converts it into an explosion of polygons, export an obj, create an empty point cloud and add points at the point locations of the exploded mesh ** ** bit of a run around, but it's fast ** ** thanks ** ** -- *From:* **softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com** [mailto:** softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com**] *On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici *Sent:* 09 January 2013 10:56 *To:* **softimage@listproc.autodesk.com** *Subject:* Re: terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Try that. ** ** ** ** On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:46 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: if you can be bothered, i know as much about Python as i do about open heart surgery.! it's just testing stuff at the moment, waiting to get some proper Lidar data from the client a -- *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici *Sent:* 09 January 2013 10:30 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: terrain ascii xyz import Hi Adrian. I used the data that Chris pasted into his mail to test with and that had no spaces... I use huge regular expression to parse the file for valid point data lines and it doesn't expect spaces. I'll tweak it and send it again if you like... DAN On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:22 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: Hey Dan, i gave it a swing, but regardless of my .xyz file formatting, i always get the error message; Error - no points found or not a valid XYZ file!!! have you got an xyz file that works for you, that you caould strip to just a couple of lines so i can see the format? the one i'm trying is like this; 647680.01, 508967.136, 185.622 647680.099, 508967.133, 185.609 647680.124, 508953.779, 184.757 -- *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici *Sent:* 09 January 2013 09:34 *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: terrain ascii xyz import Hey Chris, was that script of any use? Just curious! :) It's quite slow, as I'm sure you've noticed as you said it was a large file! Never could find a way to speed it up. I just put it down to Python being slow in the end... :/ DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: ok thanks guys. I'll see how this goes. I can always break the file down into smaller pieces maybe. Or if Dan's script works well, take a percentage of the point instead. I'll report back! On 7 January 2013 16:51, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.ch wrote: oh, all right. If it's huge then this won't work that well I think :( On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I was thinking. Once I get the file into soft, I'll know what I'm dealing with. It's a pretty huge file of points. On 7 January 2013 16:34, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote:** ** With that, then you can use ICE on a grid of sufficient points and set up a tree like... Get** **Point** **ID and pointcloud getdata -- ID To Location -- .PointPosition -- Set Point Position (Who knows how the terrain is ordered though. It might look horrid.) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just
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You want a pointcloud? Because that's just positions. It's not defining topology. You could probably make a grid of enough points and stick them to that pointcloud, but it could look shitty. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? Thanks Chris On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If it’s ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. ** ** Do you have a sample file? ** ** ** ** Matt ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Marshall *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? ** ** Cheers ** ** Chris ** ** -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: terrain ascii xyz import
Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? Thanks Chris On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If it’s ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. ** ** Do you have a sample file? ** ** ** ** Matt ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Marshall *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? ** ** Cheers ** ** Chris ** ** -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk import sys import random import gzip import os import re from struct import pack import win32com.client from win32com.client import constants ## Globals null = None false = 0 true = 1 xsi = Application pr = xsi.LogMessage def main(): # Browse for the .XYZ file xyzFilePath = GetXYZfilePath() if xyzFilePath: # Retreive the point data from the .XYZ file pointsList = GetPointsList(xyzFilePath) nbPoints = len(pointsList) if nbPoints 0: # Get user input oPset = GetInputValues(nbPoints) if oPset: pointsPerc = oPset.pPointsPerc.value # Take the list of point data and rework it for softimage - Use user input to filter/modify the data. pointDataList = ParsePoints(pointsList, pointsPerc) nbPoints = len(pointDataList) # Write the icecache cachePath = WriteIceCache(xyzFilePath, pointDataList, oPset.pPointSize.value) # Create an empty pointcloud under a model cloudModel = xsi.ActiveSceneRoot.AddModel(,xyzfileName + _model) pointCloud = cloudModel.AddPrimitive(pointcloud, xyzfileName) # Load in out newly created icecache xsi.AddFileCacheSource(pointCloud, cachePath) # Cleanup... xsi.FreezeObj(pointCloud) xsi.DeleteObj(cloudModel.Fullname + .Mixer) # I figure one more command isn't gonna hurt after the 3 above this... ;) xsi.SetValue(pointCloud.Fullname + .particledisplay.displaytype, 1, ) else: pr(Aborting!!!) xsi.DeleteObj(oPset) else: pr(Error - no points found or not a valid XYZ file!!!) else: pr(Error - no XYZ file!!!) return def GetInputValues(nbPoints): # Setup the Custom Pset and inspect Modally - Define the Pset as a global global oPset oPset = xsi.ActiveSceneRoot.AddCustomProperty(XYZ_ImportOptions) pImportPerc = oPset.AddParameter2(pPointsPerc, constants.siInt2, 100, 0, 100, 0, 100
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OK Thanks, I'll take a look!! Cheers On 7 January 2013 16:22, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? Thanks Chris On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If it’s ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. ** ** Do you have a sample file? ** ** ** ** Matt ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Marshall *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? ** ** Cheers ** ** Chris ** ** -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
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With that, then you can use ICE on a grid of sufficient points and set up a tree like... Get Point ID and pointcloud getdata -- ID To Location -- .PointPosition -- Set Point Position (Who knows how the terrain is ordered though. It might look horrid.) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? Thanks Chris On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If it’s ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. ** ** Do you have a sample file? ** ** ** ** Matt ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Marshall *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? ** ** Cheers ** ** Chris ** ** -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
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That's what I was thinking. Once I get the file into soft, I'll know what I'm dealing with. It's a pretty huge file of points. On 7 January 2013 16:34, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: With that, then you can use ICE on a grid of sufficient points and set up a tree like... Get Point ID and pointcloud getdata -- ID To Location -- .PointPosition -- Set Point Position (Who knows how the terrain is ordered though. It might look horrid.) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? Thanks Chris On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If it’s ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. ** ** Do you have a sample file? ** ** ** ** Matt ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Marshall *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? ** ** Cheers ** ** Chris ** ** -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: terrain ascii xyz import
One good thing about my script is that you can ask it to take a small percentage of points if you want to have a quick preview. Also if you get bored and cancel during import you still get all the points processed up to that point. :) DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: That's what I was thinking. Once I get the file into soft, I'll know what I'm dealing with. It's a pretty huge file of points. On 7 January 2013 16:34, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: With that, then you can use ICE on a grid of sufficient points and set up a tree like... Get Point ID and pointcloud getdata -- ID To Location -- .PointPosition -- Set Point Position (Who knows how the terrain is ordered though. It might look horrid.) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? Thanks Chris On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If it’s ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. ** ** Do you have a sample file? ** ** ** ** Matt ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Marshall *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? ** ** Cheers ** ** Chris ** ** -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: terrain ascii xyz import
oh, all right. If it's huge then this won't work that well I think :( On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: That's what I was thinking. Once I get the file into soft, I'll know what I'm dealing with. It's a pretty huge file of points. On 7 January 2013 16:34, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: With that, then you can use ICE on a grid of sufficient points and set up a tree like... Get Point ID and pointcloud getdata -- ID To Location -- .PointPosition -- Set Point Position (Who knows how the terrain is ordered though. It might look horrid.) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? Thanks Chris On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If it’s ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. ** ** Do you have a sample file? ** ** ** ** Matt ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Marshall *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? ** ** Cheers ** ** Chris ** ** -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- --- Vladimir Jankijevic Technical Direction Elefant Studios AG Lessingstrasse 15 CH-8002 Zürich +41 44 500 48 20 www.elefantstudios.ch ---
Re: terrain ascii xyz import
ok thanks guys. I'll see how this goes. I can always break the file down into smaller pieces maybe. Or if Dan's script works well, take a percentage of the point instead. I'll report back! On 7 January 2013 16:51, Vladimir Jankijevic vladi...@elefantstudios.chwrote: oh, all right. If it's huge then this won't work that well I think :( On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.comwrote: That's what I was thinking. Once I get the file into soft, I'll know what I'm dealing with. It's a pretty huge file of points. On 7 January 2013 16:34, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: With that, then you can use ICE on a grid of sufficient points and set up a tree like... Get Point ID and pointcloud getdata -- ID To Location -- .PointPosition -- Set Point Position (Who knows how the terrain is ordered though. It might look horrid.) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Chris, I quickly (read - some things may not work!) refactored my old .PLY importer for you. should work... Just rename as .py and run in the script editor. Like Alan suggested though, it's just point data so it just makes a pointcloud. Hope it helps. DAN On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slow reply on this. We have an xyz file, which is just a grid of points, like this:- -105.25,39.75,1757.129 -105.25,39.749958,1758.791 -105.25,39.749917,1760.882 -105.25,39.749875,1763.025 -105.25,39.749833,1765.183 -105.25,39.7497916667,1767.467 -105.25,39.749750,1768.741 -105.25,39.749708,1771.766 -105.25,39.749667,1773.832 -105.25,39.749625,1775.873 -105.25,39.749583,1777.84 -105.25,39.7495416667,1779.369 -105.25,39.749500,1781.255 -105.25,39.749458,1783.423 -105.25,39.749417,1785.815 -105.25,39.749375,1788.552 -105.25,39.749333,1791.749 -105.25,39.7492916667,1795.332 -105.25,39.749250,1800.269 -105.25,39.749208,1804.516 -105.25,39.749167,1808.3 So it must be relatively easy to convert this into a grid? Anyone got any ideas or can supply a simple script we can modify that'll read this data and generate a new grid or adjust the height of an existing grid? Thanks Chris On 14 December 2012 19:12, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If it’s ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. ** ** Do you have a sample file? ** ** ** ** Matt ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Marshall *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? ** ** Cheers ** ** Chris ** ** -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- --- Vladimir Jankijevic Technical Direction Elefant Studios AG Lessingstrasse 15 CH-8002 Zürich +41 44 500 48 20 www.elefantstudios.ch --- -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: terrain ascii xyz import
maybe a bit late to the party (and maybe the plugin doesn't even work anymore) but have you looked at http://sukio.de/resources/Terrain_Import.htm? On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: If it’s ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. ** ** Do you have a sample file? ** ** ** ** Matt ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Marshall *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* terrain ascii xyz import ** ** Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? ** ** Cheers ** ** Chris ** **
Re: terrain ascii xyz import
Thanks a lot Alan!! Just trying it out now. Will report back. Cheers Chris On 14 December 2012 14:57, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: What does the format look like? Is it a pointcloud only or does it define topology also? Either way, you can import it into the opensource freeware MeshLab http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ and export it in a friendlier format. The program can also do meshing from pointclouds, if it turns out not to have a topological description. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? Cheers Chris
RE: terrain ascii xyz import
If it's ASCII, an importer can probably be written fairly easily. Do you have a sample file? Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Marshall Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 5:19 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: terrain ascii xyz import Hello, Anyone know how to get these into soft? Cheers Chris
