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potree / PotreeConverter

Create multi res point cloud to use with potree
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Support for *.ply files #460

Closed AnasHamed73 closed 4 years ago

AnasHamed73 commented 4 years ago

The older version of the converter (1.7) runs the conversion job for .ply files without any issues, but I cannot get the new converter to work with such files. It instantly terminates in indexer.cpp with a segmentation fault which is a result of the metadata.json file not containing the required properties, which, in turn, is due to the absence of a dedicated .ply file reader (or at least that's what my guess is). It doesn't seem to have a problem with .las files, though.

Are *.ply files supported in version 2, or is it still a work in progress? I can see that the older version had a dedicated PlyPointReader for .ply files, but there doesn't seem to be one in version 2.

For clarification, I ran the converter like so: ./PotreeConverter -i ./file.ply -o ./out The output is depicted below ply_conversion

m-schuetz commented 4 years ago

Hi,

PotreeConverter 2 only work with las and laz. Please use tools like CloudCompare or lastools to convert them from ply to las. Maybe PDAL works as well?

han1396735592 commented 4 years ago

Does version 2.0 have plans to support ply format?