Maxscript Help - Batch Import and position script

[dreid270]

Hello I wonder if anyone can help. Im a Max Script newbie and Im using max design 2010 and importing FLT mesh files to a MAX scene.

My project is a cityscape scene which coveres a 3 squre km area, containing up to 2000 buildings. The building models have come from a seperate company in FLT format which can be used in 3dsmax. When I import each building model they come in at 0,0,0 each on top of each other and not in the positions they're supposed to be in. Ive got a text file that gives the details of each file and building position as follows:

ss_id | openflight | astext
-------+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------
2423 | manchester_build_area6_2423.fl | POINT(383077.83583427 398130.662707564)
2424 | manchester_build_area6_2424.fl | POINT(383067.921649128 398118.414637092)
2425 | manchester_build_area6_2425.fl | POINT(383056.288790959 398137.108632821)

...where the "openfight" column is the filename and the "astext" column is the numerical values in x and y positions. (The axis of each building has already been offset for z values). Can you tell me how to write a script for batch importing these files to the correct positions through parsing the data in the text file?

Thanks anyones help would be appreciated

[MaccaAko]

I wish you luck finding someone to code for you for free.

As I sit at work I'll give you some hints on the way:
- Turn on Macrorecorder (right click in bottom left corner, open "listener window", Macrorecorder "enable"

- Then import one item, modify it to suit your need.

For reading a text file google "read textfile maxscript" and you might be lucky (first one I got read some coordinates from a file - CGTalk - MaxScript: Reading Custom Info from a File).

Then put it in a loop to import the recorded macro with values from the file, simple and sound.

But of course it helps if you know programming or maxscript. I just gave you some hints, maybe someone will code it for you!


/Macca

[dreid270]

Thanks for that