Importing motion-control data

[radiuscorner]

A guy sent me some test motion-control camera data to import before we actually do the shoot and I can't figure out how to get it in. I've been able to import .anim moco files, but these are some kinda of raw ascii data files. They're bascially text files with x,y,z position and orientation. I've tried selecting a 1-node camera and importing as well as trying to import them as a .mov (move) file with no luck...

i've posted the files here:
http://www.hudziak.com/z\_subdir/moco/

and a description of the the formats he exported:

Attached are CGI output files from the camera move used for the test. I've given you several flavors, so that you can try some options when implementing with your 3-D software. All files are a basic ASCII text file, with the data collimated. There is a header on each file. Depending on your 3-d software you may have to go into a text program & delete these 2 data lines.

The files:
MRMCINCH.TXT - MRMC format, units in inches.
MRMCMETR.TXT - MRMC format, units in meters.
XYZ.TXT - Units in meters, similar format as MRMC, but with FOV (field of view) column.
SOFTINCH.TXT - Softimage format, units in inches.
SOFTMETR.TXT - Softimage format, units in meters.

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thanks for any suggestions...

[goggle]

with just a quick look at the files it should be pretty easy to write a little mel program that reads lines from those files and creates a key for each frame based on the data.

look into the commands:
fOpen
readline
tokenize
setAttr
setKeyframe

Hope this helps.
-James