Re: [opendx-users] animating a sequence of files

[Chris Pelkie]

Use Format with template "data%04d.dat" then feed Sequencer to the 2nd input of Format. The output is a string: send to Import. That assumes the files are really in DX format, in which case you should name them *.dx. If not, presumably you have created a series of general header files. The same Format trick would work. Import doesn't know or care where the string name comes from as long as it points to a real file in an appropriate format. You may have to prepend the pathname. If so, I use a String interactor then send the value to the 2nd input of Format, and Sequence to 3rd input.
Template is then "%s/data%04d.dat".


On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 02:48 AM, Wyn Williams wrote:

Forgive me is this is obvious. I am searched the archives but
cannot find an answer.

I would like to sequentially read in a series of data files

data0001.dat .... data0020.dat
etc

Each file contains one set of data which I cam import and visualize.
I would like to read these series of files into my opendx network
sequentially so that they are visualized one after each other into an
animation.

Can anyone point me in the right direction

Many Thanks
Wyn

I thought some how to place the files names in a string list that the
sequencer would step through, but I just cannot get it to work.

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