Okay, so…
I am getting a bit frustrated with importing .PLY files with XYZ and RGB into blender, I can’t seem to get the colors to show up in blender.
Ideasman apparently fixed the issue for 2.48a, but I still cant get colors to work (in 2.49b).
I am trying to import 3D points from a laser scanner, then best fit surfaces to the points.
I dont want to connect faces between the points, however, just best fit shapes.
So can blender show a point itself (no faces) with color? It doesnt have to be during rendering. Thanks in advance
Phil
A veery simple example ply file is posted below.
ply
format ascii 1.0
comment author: Greg Turk
comment object: another cube
element vertex 8
property float x
property float y
property float z
property uchar red
property uchar green
property uchar blue
element face 7
property list uchar int vertex_index
end_header
0 0 0 255 0 0
0 0 1 255 0 0
0 1 1 255 255 0
0 1 0 0 255 0
1 0 0 0 0 255
1 0 1 0 0 255
1 1 1 0 0 255
1 1 0 0 0 255
3 0 1 2
3 0 2 3
4 7 6 5 4
4 0 4 5 1
4 1 5 6 2
4 2 6 7 3
4 3 7 4 0