Hi Mark_T
The thing is with that kind of queries is that you need to see it from a generic point of view. Today you want to parse text into a vector3, this is fine, tomorrow you'll want to parse vector2 and in a week you'll want to convert a combination of them.
If I write an action that parse a textfile specifically for vector3 in that specific format, this is a lot of time spent in developing for a very narrow need.
So from a generic point ( read reusable and more flexible) of view here is how I would tackle your need:
1: With the current state of arrayMaker and its new addition to parse lines into an array, you are then only one action away to get to your vector
2: I wrote few days ago an action that convert a vector 3 to string. Now we simply need to reverse this action and convert a string to a vector 3.
http://hutonggames.com/playmakerforum/index.php?topic=921.0 This means that for your need, we really only write one specific action. I would even go further and maybe consider actually conforming to this above action, so that your text file is made of lines such as
Vector(-0.05288386,0.8564703,-0.5134802)
It is of course not mandatory, and depending on the number of lines, you might want to save the extra number of characters compare to just have space delimited numbers. Or we could enhance this actions by choosing amongst different format and why not have some regex possibilities
but that would be already for quite advanced users, cause if you are not aquaincted with scripting, regex is a foreign language too...
Allow me few days to write something for your need ( unless someone lelse step in of course). Meanwhile you could try if you are willing to give it a go, try to reverse this vector3toString for fun.
The big picture is of course to provide such things built the csv and xml parser and why not the arrayMaker. But one step at a time
Bye,
Jean
