Point cloud in Maya 2016

[Anonymous]

I need to deliver nparticles .ma of a point cloud.

I have tried using PLY PointCloud and its just not working right (can't concatenate 'str' and 'int') so am trying anything to get a point cloud opening in Maya.

I currently have the mesh data in Maya and am trying to just delete the faces but leave the vertex points..? No luck so far..

I have OBJ, PLY, PTS, TXT of the data... but I need .ma

Help would be hugely appreciated, I am tearing my hair out over here!!

[pshwayka]

Hi Hazel,

Make a copy of your scene in case the following steps don't produce what you're after.

With the FX menu set active, click on nParticles->Create Options->Point.

Select your mesh. Open the  nParticles->Soft Body settings and make sure they are set to "make soft."

Click Create. Do not click on the mesh at this point.

Open the Edit->Duplicate Special settings, click Edit->Reset Settings, and click Duplicate Special.

Activate the move tool and move the created points to the side.

Open the outliner, and expand your mesh node. Select the second particle node and hit Shift+P.

With that unparented particle node selected, export it as an .ma

This may or may not be what you're after, but it will only take a couple of minutes to try.

Hope this helps!

[Anonymous]

 Hi , not sure if you need it anymore or not , 

i made a nice script for this , its a bit slow but gets the work done 

all you need is an ascii ply file of the cloud and it will import 

check it out :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6KB4jzFAzE

[emanshiuU6AQ3]

Hi I bought your plugin but its filled with characters it won't recognize, I am unable to load the script, any thoughts?

[Anonymous]

See the txt file for how to use the pyc.
You can't import it in .
You need to import it using code. It's all in the zip file .

[emanshiuU6AQ3]

Hi Thanks for replying, I've put the script in the script folder , I've
opened the script in the script editor and it looks like this, im stuck at
thai point, can you help?Thanks.

[image: image.png]

[Anonymous]

Try this.


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJzvHgbYw5VIpfHCGzS0tqD5slqtIkXGZYGv6RLj_wI/edit?usp=drivesdk

[emanshiuU6AQ3]

I’ve followed all the steps but it still has errors .

[emanshiuU6AQ3]

can I get some help on this?

[Anonymous]

contact me directly please, ill see if i can help you