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.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:- >>>> >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7500000000,1757.129 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7499583333,1758.791 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7499166667,1760.882 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7498750000,1763.025 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7498333333,1765.183 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7497916667,1767.467 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7497500000,1768.741 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7497083333,1771.766 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7496666667,1773.832 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7496250000,1775.873 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7495833333,1777.84 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7495416667,1779.369 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7495000000,1781.255 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7494583333,1783.423 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7494166667,1785.815 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7493750000,1788.552 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7493333333,1791.749 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7492916667,1795.332 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7492500000,1800.269 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7492083333,1804.516 >>>> -105.2500000000,39.7491666667,1808.3 >>>> >>>> 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 > >
