Geometry Instancing by Text SOP with Table DAT

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Hi,

I’d like to make a chart like the periodic table.
I tried to make it with geometry instancing.
I made x,y,z positions and label of each cell as Table DAT.
e.g.
x,y,z,label
0,0.1,0,Hydrogen(H)

But I have no idea how to instancing labels with their x,y,z position.
I understand texture3d TOP and absTime method can change each texture.
But it can’t specify label and their position.

2

Hi @syym88,

have a look if this file answers you question:

Best
Markus

3

Hi @snaut,
Thanks for your information.
Finally, I could do what I want to do by your sample files.
I pre-load texts from table DAT and made Pattern CHOP(Ramp) as index number and I set the index number as instansing parameter of materials-w.

Thanks for you great help

Best,