topic Re: importing sequence of obj files in 3ds Max Programming Forum

importing sequence of obj files

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:48:31 GMT

I need to import a sequence of .obj files. I have generated a sequence of geometry in another package, and due to changing point counts per frame, Fbx doesn't seem to work, so I wrote out a sequence of .obj files.

If this requires a script, does anyone have one already written?

Re: importing sequence of obj files

Steve_Curley — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:47:12 GMT

i don't know offhand of a script to do that, but it should be pretty easy to write one.
getFiles (to get a list of the obj files in the folder)
a for/next loop to iterate over them
importFile (to actually do the import)

This is more of a Maxscript question than a max question and may be better suited to the Maxscript forum. If you want the thread moved, just ask (don't create a duplicate thread please).

Re: importing sequence of obj files

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:49:07 GMT

Thanks, sounds right. Not sure who to ask for a move, though. New to max script and frankly tired of learning scripting languages, so if I could find a template or something close that would be great.

Re: importing sequence of obj files

Steve_Curley — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:21:26 GMT

I'll move it in the morning, after you've had chance to read this.

You'll get the import dialog once which allows you to make any import option changes you want, then it just goes ahead and imports all the others.
Change the path to suit your system.


&#40;
theFiles = getFiles "c:/imports/*.obj"

for t = 1 to theFiles.count do
   importFile theFiles #noprompt using:Wavefront_Object
&#41;

Re: importing sequence of obj files

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:36:08 GMT

Maybe my Batch Loader script will help you as well ;)
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/batch-loader