Maya Particle importer for Grasshopper

I have created a new definition for grasshopper that will import particle animations from Maya into grasshopper. Right now I only import two attributes, position as point and velocity as a vector. The script is open and easy to add any property you want to carry over. The idea behind the function is to use Maya ability to create “smarter” point cloud using forces and AI.

You can find the download and instructions on my site www.cerver.org

here is a VIDEO

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on April 13, 2010 at 1:59am

Excellent work! Looking forward to trying it out...

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 13, 2010 at 2:30am

Awesome! Upload it to YouTube or Vimeo.
If you don't have a channel I can put it on mine.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on April 13, 2010 at 10:43am

ok all uploaded to youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZKxe_RaghA

i am going to do a few more tests and will upload them soon

Permalink Reply by Miguel Vidal on April 13, 2010 at 12:52pm

great work! congratulations

Permalink Reply by Karoly Markos on April 13, 2010 at 1:01pm

Exactly What the Doctor Ordered

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on April 13, 2010 at 1:38pm

Nice Work :) Awesome! :)

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on April 13, 2010 at 2:39pm

Very good, this was missing!

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on April 14, 2010 at 8:18am

i am glad you all like this, i will be updating it to include more properties and i need to add error checking into it, since it is very different from the GC code it came from i just riped it all out.

also i added a new video in my video section (in HD!)

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on April 19, 2010 at 9:36am

i have updated the definition to include color which you can map in Maya to many properties like speed, life, velocity. i have also added some error checking code with useful outputs so check the out if the component fails. also just some general cleanup.

-robert

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on May 5, 2010 at 12:16pm

Hi All. i updated the maya particle importer to work in .7 and rhinoCommon.
not much in way of new features but i did clean up the code and fix a little issue with the color property.

Enjoy,
Robert

Permalink Reply by eppi on May 8, 2011 at 8:44am

hi thanks for the script but i have just a question,

in my case maya dont´t know the "-atr rgbPP " flag in your expression

dynExport -all true -atr position -atr velocity -atr rgbPP -f pda

what was your way to use it?

bests christoph

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on May 8, 2011 at 8:54am

it depends how you create a particle in maya weather or not it automatically creates a rgbPP attr. to have the property applied for you create "balls" . but otherwise you have to add the rgbPP yourself. you can assign the property to many different things like life, speed, collision....

but you do not need to add it so just leave it out and everthing will work fine.

dynExport -all true -atr position -atr velocity -f pda

on another note i started a group called CERVER tools so it would be good if you use that to ask questions