When printing a string value into a new file…is it possible to do it without the quotes getting written out as well?
Thanks!!
Please show your code, the quotes are not supposed to be written.
Well…don’t laugh…just trying to figure out how to build a file that i already have a template for…so heres where i am.
hve3d_template_part_1="This is my string"
out_name = getSaveFileName \
Filename: "c:/Temp/stringtest.dat" \
types:"Data(*.dat)|*.dat|Text(*.txt)|Excel(*.csv)|All(*.*)|"
out_file = createfile out_name
print hve3d_template_part_1 to:out_file
close out_file
I tried to assemble the first part of the template i have but it has strings inside it so not sure how to approach that either. The first part looks like this:
#Inventor V2.0 ascii
Separator
{
Info
{
string "Details about the vehicle - Year/Make/Model"
}
ShapeHints
{
vertexOrdering COUNTERCLOCKWISE
shapeType UNKNOWN_SHAPE_TYPE
faceType CONVEX
}
Switch {
whichChild -1
Thanks for the help.
use format instead of print, just remember that you need to add
for line breaks.
If you need to print actual ” characters, use the escape code:
\"
see string literals in the maxscript help.
Thank you soooooooooo much…got it working perfectly! If we’re ever in the same place i’ll buy you a beer!
One more quick question. If i’m using something like this(not the whole code bit):
for v = 1 to num_verts do
format "%
" (getVert tmesh v) to:out_file
Why do the vert coordinates come out like this:
[-0.420152,20.7161,0]
[-0.420152,19.7908,3.45334]
[-0.420152,17.2628,5.98135]
[-0.420151,13.8094,6.90667]
[-0.420151,10.3561,5.98135]
[-0.420151,7.82808,3.45334]
…and not like this in the out_file:
-0.420152,20.7161,0
-0.420152,19.7908,3.45334
-0.420152,17.2628,5.98135
-0.420151,13.8094,6.90667
-0.420151,10.3561,5.98135
-0.420151,7.82808,3.45334
Thanks!
Because every coordinates always come out like point2 ([x,y]) or point3 ([x,y,z]) value.
Try this
for v = 1 to num_verts do
(
local coord = getVert tmesh v
format "%,%,%
" coord.x coord.y coord.z to:out_file
)
Hmmm…that didn’t work. It threw this into the listener:
$Torus:Torus001 @ [-0.420151,-1.604431,0.000000]
-- Error occurred in anonymous codeblock; filename: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2012\Scripts\DDE Scripts\Vehicle Metrics\IndividualScripts\Building the h3d file\; position: 1489; line: 45
-- Frame:
-- num_verts: 288
-- coord: undefined
-- num_faces: 576
-- Unknown property: "x" in undefined
OK
It could be understandable how this would not work on a Torus since getVert only accepts an editable mesh, but in that case it would raise an exception and would never simply return undefined into coord. Please post the code you’re using.
Here it is:
fn GetGeometry o = (
Superclassof o == Geometryclass and classof o != TargetObject )
obj = pickobject filter:GetGeometry
if isValidNode obj then
(
tmesh =snapshotAsMesh obj
out_name = getSaveFileName \
Filename: "c:/Temp/geometrytest/geometryoutputtest.txt" \
types:"Text (*.txt)"
if out_name != undefined then
(
out_file = createfile out_name
num_verts = tmesh.numverts
num_faces = tmesh.numfaces
for v = 1 to num_verts do
local coord = getVert tmesh v
format "%,%,%
" coord.x coord.y coord.z to:out_file
--format "%
" (getVert tmesh v) to:out_file
for f = 1 to num_faces do
(
face = getFace tmesh f
format "%
" face to:out_file
)
close out_file
edit out_name
)
)
I test this and it works
fn GetGeometry o = (Superclassof o == Geometryclass and classof o != TargetObject)
obj = $Torus001 --pickobject filter:GetGeometry
if isValidNode obj then
(
tmesh =snapshotAsMesh obj
out_name = getSaveFileName \
Filename: "c:/Temp/geometryoutputtest.txt" \
types:"Text (*.txt)"
if out_name != undefined then
(
out_file = createfile out_name
num_verts = tmesh.numverts
num_faces = tmesh.numfaces
for v = 1 to num_verts do
(
local coord = getVert tmesh v
format "%,%,%
" coord.x coord.y coord.z to:out_file
)
for f = 1 to num_faces do
(
face = getFace tmesh f
format "%
" face to:out_file
)
close out_file
edit out_name
)
)
Maybe is better to use *.ini then *.txt in your case