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user11498510
user11498510

Reputation:

How can i return only few values from an array

I have a array of floats i need to return only the position values from the array as std::vector, which are the first three values.

Currently i am not able to figure out how can i do that.

 float vertices[] = {
// positions          // normals           // texture coords
-0.5f, -0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,
 0.5f, -0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,
 0.5f,  0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  1.0f,  1.0f,
 0.5f,  0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  1.0f,  1.0f,
-0.5f,  0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,
-0.5f, -0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,

-0.5f, -0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,
 0.5f, -0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,
 0.5f,  0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  1.0f,  1.0f,
 0.5f,  0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  1.0f,  1.0f,
-0.5f,  0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,
-0.5f, -0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,

-0.5f,  0.5f,  0.5f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,
-0.5f,  0.5f, -0.5f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  1.0f,
-0.5f, -0.5f, -0.5f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,
-0.5f, -0.5f, -0.5f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,
-0.5f, -0.5f,  0.5f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,
-0.5f,  0.5f,  0.5f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,

 0.5f,  0.5f,  0.5f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,
 0.5f,  0.5f, -0.5f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  1.0f,
 0.5f, -0.5f, -0.5f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,
 0.5f, -0.5f, -0.5f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,
 0.5f, -0.5f,  0.5f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,
 0.5f,  0.5f,  0.5f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,

-0.5f, -0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,
 0.5f, -0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  1.0f,
 0.5f, -0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,
 0.5f, -0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,
-0.5f, -0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,
-0.5f, -0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f, -1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,

-0.5f,  0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,
 0.5f,  0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  1.0f,
 0.5f,  0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,
 0.5f,  0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,
-0.5f,  0.5f,  0.5f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,
-0.5f,  0.5f, -0.5f,  0.0f,  1.0f,  0.0f,  0.0f,  1.0f
};

Upvotes: 0

Views: 121

Answers (3)

Robert Andrzejuk
Robert Andrzejuk

Reputation: 5232

struct vertex
{
    static const size_t number_of_floats = 3;

    float x, y, z;
};

std::vector<vertex> get_vertices(const float *data, const size_t data_count, const size_t vals_per_row = 8)
{
    std::vector<vertex> vertices;
    vertices.reserve(data_count/vals_per_row + (data_count % vals_per_row == 0 ? 0 : 1); 

    for (size_t pos = 0; pos+vertex::number_of_floats <= data_count; pos += vals_per_row)
    {
        vertices.push_back({data[pos], data[pos+1], data[pos+2]});
    } 

    return vertices;
}

Upvotes: 1

PeteBlackerThe3rd
PeteBlackerThe3rd

Reputation: 670

Something like this should do it. There are 8 elements per vertex in your array, so you can use a for loop with a stride of 8 to iterate once for each vertex. Then you can copy each position dimension out into a std::vector.

int arrayLength = <assume you have this value somewhere>;

std::vector<float> points;

for (int p=0; p<arrayLength; p+=8)
{
  points.push_back(vertices[p]);
  points.push_back(vertices[p+1]);
  points.push_back(vertices[p+2]);
}

Upvotes: 3

amlucas
amlucas

Reputation: 312

You can do something like that

std::vector<float> getPositions(int nentries, const float *data)
{
    std::vector<float> positions;
    positions.reserve(nentries*3);

    for (int i = 0; i < nentries; ++i)
    {
        positions.push_back(data[8*i + 0];
        positions.push_back(data[8*i + 1];
        positions.push_back(data[8*i + 2];
    }
    return positions;
}

Upvotes: 3

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