PLY Import Plugins for 3DS Max 2010

Just gonna toot my own horn here a bit and let you know that I just released a new version of the PLY Importer Plugin for Autodesk’s 3dsMax.  The new version fixes a bug I ran into with datasets from Okino’s PolyTrans from this PLY Exporter script (they use ‘vertex_index’ instead of the standard ‘vertex_indices’ property name), as well as adds working support for vertex-normals.

This is a plugin to enable import of Stanford PLY models into Autodesk’s 3D Studio Max. It works for both the 32 & 64 bit versions of Max, and handles both Binary & ASCII PLY models. This plugin uses the PLY code provided by Greg Turk. Unlike the PLY import plugin from HabWare for Max8, the memory leaks have been fixed and now several hundred PLY files can be imported at a time without incident.

It works for 3dsMax 2010 and 2011.  Special thanks to Jen at Wunderboy.org for helping out with the Vertex Normal support :)

via PLY Import Plugins for 3DS Max 2010 – Visualization.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .