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Rather than convert a point cloud into a surface, I need to substitute each point with simple geometry like a cube or low-poly sphere. (My cloud object is volumetric, and I need to use this technique to create an OBJ a placeholder within a software that does not support point clouds.) Is there any w...

Just to follow up, I found there was a problem with the original mesh that was throwing off the UVs to cause this color disparity problem. CloudCompare wasn't a factor. :-)

Would love to see a "cloud from vertex" option in the future.

Hi Daniel, Thanks for the quick reply, and verifying that CloudCompare is not doing any gamma adjustments. (Perhaps it's happening in Meshlab...) Unfortunately, it's important that I sample only the vertices from the mesh for this project. So CloudCompare doesn't currently have a way of creating a c...

I need to go from an mesh object with a bitmap to a PLY with colored points that correspond to the bitmap. Is it possible to transfer the RGB information from the bitmap to the vertices and then save that out as a colored point cloud? I tried importing the textured OBJ into MeshLab, tranfering from ...

Edit: Ah, so it was as simple as saving as .ply with the vertices selected! No sampling needed. Cool, thanks.

I need to convert all the vertices of a mesh to points in a point cloud. (Ideally a PLY file, or what a PLY could be converted from.) The colors from the mesh's vertex color channel or texture map must also transfer to the resultant point cloud's colors. CloudCompare allows conversion of a mesh to a...