Updating gameobject position using data from a CSV fle

Hi. I have a gameobject (an animated 3D model) whose position I want to update at each frame by reading the corresponding position data from a CSV file. Data in the CSV file looks as follows:

x,y,z
-0.00609, -0.05716, 0.53728
-0.01124, -0.04929, 0.53632
-0.01307, -0.04817, 0.5361
...

Is there a straightforward approach to read CSV input using C# ? My CSV file are not so big; they contain around 300 lines each, so I guess it would be easier to read everything into an array and then iterate inside the Update function. I will save each frame to an image after I do the position update but I already figured out how to do that part.

Thanks.

 

You can get CSV reader libraries but the main concern is compatibility with whatever Unity you're using, now and into the future. Some libraries are HORRIBLY over-engineered and require dot-net 2050 or whatever the latest C# is.

Fortunately CSV is such a trivial format that it is probably easiest just to slice up the strings yourself, using either regular expressions or simple string search, splitting and slicing.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.regularexpressions.regex?view=net-5.0

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.string.split?view=net-5.0

Once you have chopped it all up into parts, parse the values with something like:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.single.tryparse?view=net-5.0

and use it however you like.