Fantasy3000 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Hallo, At first: I use Houdini Apprentice. I´m currently searching for a solution to export data from Houdini to grasshopper or to exel spreadsheeds. why excel spreadsheeds? - because grasshopper can read them. what kind of data? - point/particle numbers and positions - vertices - in short: all data that can be shown in the detail view (I know: that was a spongy declaration) why not just "save geometry"? - because all the point/particle NUMBERS are missing and they´re so important for grasshopper! It is so easy to get acces to all kind of data inside Houdini. there must be a way to get certain data out! If anybody could help me I could breathe a sigh of relief! Greetings Fantasy300000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdg Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Looks like there enough excel modulus for python out there: http://www.python-excel.org/ This is from the houdini help: http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini11.0/hom/cookbook/particle_cache/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam.h Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Aren't point numbers implied by thier order in the file? Anyway, you could easily write a .csv file with python without any extra modules, since they are just text files. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values http://snipplr.com/view/6630/reading-and-writing-text-files-in-python/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantasy3000 Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 thank you for the quick answering! so it seems to be possible. that´s appeasing! I thougt it´s not possible with apprentice. i will try it all out. it will jus take some time because i´m relative new to houdini and absolute new to python! greetings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubabuk Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 I thougt it´s not possible with apprentice. Since it is an apparentice you shouldn't "abuse" this feature. If you find the software useful consider an "upgrade". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantasy3000 Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 (edited) Since it is an apparentice you shouldn't "abuse" this feature. If you find the software useful consider an "upgrade". my intentions absolutely harmless! i´m such a newbie in houdini that i´m faaaaar away from any possibility of abusing houdini! as i evaluate my current skills it will take me looooots of time to even follow the adwises that I achieved here in this forum - no joke! the only risk might be that (after loooots of time time) I could interest some grasshopper users to take a look at houdini! greetings Fantasy Edited February 9, 2011 by Fantasy3000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdg Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring. What's grashopper doing you can't achieve with houdini? I guess grasshopper is lacking particle sims and dynamics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantasy3000 Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 (edited) What's grashopper doing you can't achieve with houdini? I guess grasshopper is lacking particle sims and dynamics. Grashopper is a bit like building geometry in VOPs (I hope you can say it like that). But as a Rhino-plugin it´s laid-out for fabrication. And it´s nurbs based. And you are right: GS doesn´t have particles & dynamics and I want to see a bit of that in it. DOPs & POPs might be the main reason I started with Houdini. It´s experimentation and I HOPE that it will be fruitful! Houdini appeared very promising to me because you have real good controll and acces to nearly every data/parameter INSIDE of it. That´s the reason I decided to learn it. But I´m more and more getting cold feet because I didn´t spend enough time thinking about data exchange!!! PS: Same topic here: http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=21516 http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?187155-how-to-export-Data-from-Houdini-to-Grasshopper-or-Excel Edited February 9, 2011 by Fantasy3000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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