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  Cinema 4D import multiple ascii files in splines and more

  Posted by Gregoire Dupond on December 8, 2015 at 10:50 am

  Hello,

  I have a text file will all the buildings of one small town. The points that make the polygon, altitude, and height of buildings. 2300 in total.
  I scripted outside C4D to output 2300 asc files named 1.asc—2300.asc of this format:

  Point    X    Y    Z    H
  1    -84.830000000074    241.57    -200.230000000447    2.5
  2    -85.120000000112    241.57    -196.790000000037    2.5
  3    -77.879999999888    241.57    -196.169999999925    2.5
  4    -77.649999999907    241.57    -198.879999999888    2.5
  5    -80.649999999907    241.57    -199.139999999665    2.5
  6    -80.590000000084    241.57    -199.860000000335    2.5
  7    -84.830000000074    241.57    -200.230000000447    2.5

  H is the building height

  This file format is just good to import points for a spline manually in C4D.

  What I would like to do is automate the process for the 2300 buildings:

  For each of the 2300 files:
  -create a closed linear spline no intermediate points with name name of asc file
  -import the asc file points in the spline
  -create a n Extrude Nurbs to put the spline in and setup Y movement to H

  I use C4D 12.048 (yes, old version)

  Thanks everyone who can help.

  Gregoire Dupond replied 10 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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