Add PLY import/export support to meshconvert

microsoft / DirectXMesh

DirectXMesh geometry processing library

https://walbourn.github.io/directxmesh/

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Add PLY import/export support to meshconvert #76

Open walbourn opened 2 years ago

walbourn commented 2 years ago

Common portable asset format .PLY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLY_(file_format)

http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ply/

Public domain implementation: https://github.com/ddiakopoulos/tinyply

Source asset: http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/

walbourn commented 2 years ago

Community PR for adding PLY to UVAtlas to use for reference: https://github.com/microsoft/UVAtlas/pull/70

walbourn commented 1 month ago

The support needs to be opt-in and make use of tinyply via VCPKG instead of including a copy of the OSS source files which is hard to maintain over time.

https://vcpkg.io/en/package/tinyply