Houdini's built-in gply only supports ascii ply files, additionally it uses a different uv naming scheme than what PBRT supports.
PBRT's ply reader supports quads, but then internally converts to triangles anyway. So we can just stick with triangles only on the export to simplify things.
shadeops
commented
2 years ago
Houdini's built-in gply only supports ascii ply files, additionally it uses a different uv naming scheme than what PBRT supports.
PBRT's ply reader supports quads, but then internally converts to triangles anyway. So we can just stick with triangles only on the export to simplify things.