{"id":5026,"date":"2017-07-15T02:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T00:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreas-maschke.com\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2017-07-15T02:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T00:51:51","slug":"jwildfire-3-20-release-point-cloud-export","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/?p=5026","title":{"rendered":"JWildfire 3.20 release: point-cloud export"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just\u00a0released\u00a0JWildfire V3.20<\/a> – which is another community release, thanks to Brad, Rick and Luca for your contributions!<\/p>\n

This is a major release featuring a new kind of mesh-export: point-clouds.\u00a0Point-clouds basically are meshes with 1-point-polygons.
\nIn contrast to the solid meshes, the “points” of the generated point-clouds may have also an individual color and an alpha channel
\n(which may be used in rendering).<\/p>\n

3D-Packages like Houdini can render point-clouds in the way that each point is represented by a little sphere
\n(you usually can adjust the size of those spheres), generating a “solid” shape.
\nYou can apply materials to point-clouds like to any regular mesh. Especially in Houdini, the points keep their individual
\n(diffuse) color.<\/p>\n

You can also generate “solid” meshes from point-clouds, for example using the ball-pivoting-algorithm inside
\nMeshLab.<\/p>\n

Important Parameters for point-cloud-generation in JWildfire (use “Output type” POINTCLOUD to enable it):<\/p>\n