References - education.heise.com.au/2019/03/13/transfering-point-clouds-from-recap-to-blender-2-80-references/ Point Clouds Australia - pca.heise.com.au/
The vid is a bit old but you can use Meshlab and it's Poisson reconstruction to make this whole point cloud into a full mesh. Not 100% accurate, but doing retopo is less painful triangulating verts one by one and you keep textures that you can bake on the lower poly.
Whenever I load a .ply file into notepad++ I see the header but then it’s always followed by these weird looking special characters. I don’t see the coordinates. Is there a certain way I’m supposed to view it? My goal is to convert a .ply to .pts in a text editor.
Thank you so much for the video! This is exactly what I was looking for, but I am having a minor problem. I can't see/find the convert drop-down menu. I have all the rest including render.
Hello great job, will follow through as soon as i have enough time! Have you tried or managed to used the point cloud as a Set for rendering a possible image?is that even possible
Hi there, thank you for this tutorial. I have a colored point cloud (double checked that in Meshlab) and it shows up in Blender all good. Now, after converting it to a Mesh (Vertex, Cubes or Particles), I am loosing the color information. Do you have any hints on that ? Thank you very much.
Thanks a lot :) Is it possible to render it in EEVEE, change shader, add light and all ? Do you think we can use particles instead of loading a point cloud ?
Hi Blenders point cloud visualization will let me load in my PLY file but under "display" it says "n/a"... therefor I cannot click "draw". Any suggestions on how I over come this? Cheers!
This is a great reference. Thanks for doing the hard work so that others such as myself have an easier time. What level of decimation did you use when you created the initial Recap point cloud?
References - education.heise.com.au/2019/03/13/transfering-point-clouds-from-recap-to-blender-2-80-references/
Point Clouds Australia - pca.heise.com.au/
The vid is a bit old but you can use Meshlab and it's Poisson reconstruction to make this whole point cloud into a full mesh. Not 100% accurate, but doing retopo is less painful triangulating verts one by one and you keep textures that you can bake on the lower poly.
Thanks
I will give it a try
Man, THIS cheat technique save my ass so many time and sadly i can only push like button once !
Is there a function or plugin that automatically converts point clouds into mesh’s in blender?
Whenever I load a .ply file into notepad++ I see the header but then it’s always followed by these weird looking special characters. I don’t see the coordinates. Is there a certain way I’m supposed to view it? My goal is to convert a .ply to .pts in a text editor.
Thank you so much for the video! This is exactly what I was looking for, but I am having a minor problem. I can't see/find the convert drop-down menu. I have all the rest including render.
When you import the point cloud, is it in real world scale already? Or does it need to be rescaled? Nice tut by the way
Hello great job,
will follow through as soon as i have enough time!
Have you tried or managed to used the point cloud as a Set for rendering a possible image?is that even possible
Is there a way to render the point cloud from a camera view?
When importing my .txt the colors do not appear, thoughts on why that is happening?
Do you have the RGB values in the text file?
hi , can you copy the link for the point cloud visualizer for free i couldn't find
Hi there, thank you for this tutorial. I have a colored point cloud (double checked that in Meshlab) and it shows up in Blender all good. Now, after converting it to a Mesh (Vertex, Cubes or Particles), I am loosing the color information. Do you have any hints on that ? Thank you very much.
Thanks a lot :) Is it possible to render it in EEVEE, change shader, add light and all ? Do you think we can use particles instead of loading a point cloud ?
Hi Blenders point cloud visualization will let me load in my PLY file but under "display" it says "n/a"... therefor I cannot click "draw". Any suggestions on how I over come this?
Cheers!
Which version of Blender are you using?
hi, i can't find this particular addon in the addon menù, boot official or community
Install it with the "view3d_point_cloud_visualizer.py", not with the .zip file (unzip it before).
@@carbone55999 Thank you for this reply. Helped me out today.
i cant export from pontcloud to ply in blender
You need to export the ply from meshlab.
This is a great reference. Thanks for doing the hard work so that others such as myself have an easier time.
What level of decimation did you use when you created the initial Recap point cloud?
Oh man, why you just don't use some free photogrammetry software to generate the mesh and clean it in a 3d sculpting DC app !!!!????????
Because it isn't accurate
Every tool he mentioned cost money.
No they don't.
@@HeiseBIM list the free tools here and now.
Blender. Mesh-labs. You can get excel for free or get a knock off. Not that hard mate.
@@HeiseBIM blender uses a tool that cost money
@@cybern9ne Perhaps it's chanced since I made my tutorial because I didn't spend any money.