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Reading bitmap pixels for tile rendering
Background article: https://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/etc...dy_frame.shtml
...to the question of "Q. How do you use Maya?" the guy is talking of a MEl script. I understand it is a complex one - but i would like to find out - which MEL commands would let me read-in a bitmap file and and then parse it's pixels to generate objects/tiles/planes or such?
Any Ideas, guys?
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ah well..
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$files = `getFileList -fld ("c:\\yourDir\\")`;
this will list all of the files and folders in the specfied directory
I cant remember how to get the pixel info in, i know it has something to do with a thingy called iffinfo. This will allow you to read in data from .iff files.
https://www.affine.org/bmppack.html that's some info on it there I think
you can download it here
https://www.arcturus.demon.co.uk/ftp/graphics.html
it looks quite old though you may want to look for a better version I just did a searchon google for "iffinfo" and it came up with these and loads more.
Good luck
I'll check back and see how you go with this
Alan
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