ok I can do it (I think! ;))

I've done a little test script which will dump out some curves. is it possible for you to modify what you've got to create a text file that will produce data in the...

yeah if you're doing it as curves I think it should be fine. let me just try a very quick test (bearing in mind it's late!!) ;)

Alan

Emmmm that's a good point, I'm not sure. I think we could make a poly out of it..... I guess. Hmmm that makes this seem harder than I had originally thought....

let me think about it.

Alan

If you can make the scanner dump out a text file of the co-ordinates in the form:

x,y,z trans I can give you a script to load them into maya. That would avoid the need to write a plugin. Does that...

Strarup: MEL is just C coding with a few syntacical differences. It's really quite simple to get to grips with (well sorta! ;))

if you can make your 3d scanner dump put a text file of the data then you can easily read it into maya (this is exactly what I am doing in my current WIP, see the link in my sig)

It's farily easy...