Hi Could anybody provide some help with how to render a point cloud with 3D studio max, I have been following all the online help but I am having no luck whatsoever. Or is there any other software to render point clouds with ?
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Rendering in 3DS Max
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Re: Rendering in 3DS Max
You don't render a point cloud, however a textured mesh created from colourised data can be.
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Re: Rendering in 3DS Max
If you don't want to use Max for rendering ...
You can use Veesus Arena 4D Studio,
Veesus Render plugin for Rhino 3D (My choice),
Blender 3D,
You can even create an animated rendered pointcloud plus model flythrough with CloudCompare.
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You can use Veesus Arena 4D Studio,
Veesus Render plugin for Rhino 3D (My choice),
Blender 3D,
You can even create an animated rendered pointcloud plus model flythrough with CloudCompare.
Regards,
Mike.
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Re: Rendering in 3DS Max
You might check out Unreal Engine.
I have no experience with UE but I have seen a lot of development in point cloud rendering.
May be worth investigating...
I have no experience with UE but I have seen a lot of development in point cloud rendering.
May be worth investigating...
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Re: Rendering in 3DS Max
In my experience, Arnold renderer just doesn't work very well with point clouds, I got it working for a while but gave up on it. I think maybe it's only suitable for very small point clouds. I recently trialled the newest Clouds2max plugin and that seemed to work very well displaying the point cloud, however I still found rendering times to be slow. For producing quick and great looking animations of point clouds then you should check out Arena 4D.