Thanks Gustavo and Cesar, seems you agree that scripting is the way to go – at least as far as getting data from file into ICE. that’s way above my head for the time I’ll have to sort this out – so I might end up copy pasting data from the text file.
I’ve been playing a bit with string manipulation in ICE – for now just typing a string myself in ICE and then trying to filter the data I need out of that. It’s not easy ( trying to wrap my head around strings in ICE) but I’m getting there – and so far it’s quite fast. I’m first dumping everything in one long string (hm, I’ll have to scale my data 1000 fold – so I’m worried this will become a problem) – and using a special character to split into an array, and each frame I’ll access one element of the array – from which I extract the data. encapsulating the data I want with a dedicated character before and after seems to be the easiest way to get at it in ICE. (I can specify to a degree how the data will be delivered to me – lucky me) Converting from string to scalar is a bit tricky I’m finding, but I think I’ll just sort it out for integers – which should be enough for my needs. I was hoping to drive some custom parameters from ICE, and viewing them in a viewport slate – but it seems the refresh is hindered by gremlins. Anyways – I have a prototype for the most tedious part that I wanted to automate – so hopefully it scales well once I give it actual data. From: Cesar Saez Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 3:21 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: ICE - text file & string manipulation Hi, I would parse the file and generate an icecache by scripting, so you can move the data easily through different ICETrees/scenes. Maybe some of this might is still be relevant (shameless plug) http://www.cesarsaez.me/2013/11/scan-files.html Cheers! On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs <gustav...@gmail.com> wrote: I guess you would have to do what you need via scripting, and then store custom atributes you can read in ICE. I dont get exactly what your 'value' stands for. If you can tolerate just assinging particles to polygon islands, there are existing tools for that: http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/mtools/documentation/#special-cases-16. But you would have to tolerate some unwanted behaviours in letters there are composed by more then one island... like the letter "i". Best regards, Gustavo E Boehs Dpto. de Expressão Gráfica | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/ 2015-11-10 10:51 GMT-02:00 <pete...@skynet.be>: Hi all, I would need to read in a text file, and extract it's information into ICE, for example: ABCD DDBB BCCA ABCD 'value': 4.0 CCDBA AABBD CCCAB 'value' : 456 ABC CDA ABB CBB 'value' : 0.345 I would want to assign letters to an array of particles that adapts to the what's in the text, line 1 would be the situation for frame 1, line 2 situation for frame 2 and so on. and recover 'value' as a scalar I haven’t started digging yet, it’s probably a case of rtfm, so no offense if you point that out to me :-). I have some clues about how to do this in scripting, but not at all in ICE. how to access a text file in ICE (ideally - if needed I could paste the contents of the text file into a custom property or a comment) , how to find and filter stuff, strip the part I need, converting the string into scalars - if anyone has any pointers on where to start and read up, or any gotcha's - it would be much appreciated.
