I am using the Cockroach plugin in Grasshopper to create point clouds from Meshes, which I am visualizing in Unreal Engine. It works great so far, but I can’t work out how I export point clouds with normals. If I create the point cloud in Grasshopper with normals and bake it to Rhino, it seems to loose the normals.
Curious why Cockroach doesn’t have a point cloud exporter themselves, since Rhino seems to not allow anything other than .txt. That is okay and I am using Cloud Compare to turn them into .las files. Or am I the only one who wants to turn a mesh into a point cloud and export it and not the other way round, like probably most people?
Curious why Cockroach doesn’t have a point cloud exporter themselves, since Rhino seems to not allow anything other than .txt. That is okay and I am using Cloud Compare to turn them into .las files. Or am I the only one who wants to turn a mesh into a point cloud and export it and not the other way round, like probably most people?
To put it simply, the development takes most often on free time without much resources. The Cockroach somehow was started from a wish to have at least some sort of tool for minimal pointcloud manipulation and feeded by a few research projects that needed to be done.
I see, thanks for the quick reply! To be honest I was not aware that .ply could export point clouds. I also thought that when baking the normals were already gone, since Rhino’s Details panel showed only the point locations and not the normals.
I exported to PLY now and the normals are indeed in the file.
