Re: Excel spreadsheet import

2016-11-10 Thread Stephen Blair
http://www.softimageblog.com/archives/11 On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] < j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote: > Howdy yall, > > > > So I’m curious if anyone has ever imported Excel spreadsheet data into > Softimage or Houdini? > > > > I know that there is

Re: Excel spreadsheet import

2016-11-10 Thread Will Sharkey
Rohan Dalvi has a Houdini tutorial on that topic that might help you out: https://vimeo.com/146682480 "This is a simple tutorial on how to convert excel data into an animated line graph or a bar graph in Houdini." Will. On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Fabian Schnuer Gohde

Re: Excel spreadsheet import

2016-11-10 Thread Fabian Schnuer Gohde
if CSV is not an option maybe try as a starting point. http://www.python-excel.org/ and a python SOP would probably be the fastest route to victory. I've streaming large CSV files (underwater survey data) into houdini via python sop before and it works a treat. Best regards, Fabian On 10

Excel spreadsheet import

2016-11-10 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II]
Howdy yall, So I'm curious if anyone has ever imported Excel spreadsheet data into Softimage or Houdini? I know that there is probably a greater chance that I could find a way export the sheet as CSV data, and then bring in the data that way possibly by writing a converter to sort the data

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2016-11-10 Thread Thomas Volkmann
Hi, since I know there are some Fabric guys lurking here, I thought I'd ask here first I need to to build a simulated deformer to create a effect for milling metal (basically like creating footprints in snow or similar) and create vertex colors or some sort of map where the mesh was