GRASS GIS v.in.ply

Question

I'm trying to import a .ply file from MeshLab 1.33 into GRASS GIS 7.0 using v.in.ply addon.

But I get the error message:

ERROR: List index must be integer, is uchar

This appears to be referring to the faces element of the file:

element face 50000
property list uchar int vertex_indices
property list uchar float texcoord

example data:

3 18598 18744 18713 6 0.376742 0.28305 0.376685 0.279639 0.378521 0.280493 

It appears to be reading the 3 references to the vertices (further up the file) as uchar not integers.

Yet they are integers and a scan of the file doesn't find anything else popping out?

Answer 1

Check that you have an ASCII PLY file. I just tried:

GRASS 7.0.0svn (nc_spm_08_grass7):~ > v.out.ply in=geodetic_pts out=bla.ply
GRASS 7.0.0svn (nc_spm_08_grass7):~ > v.in.ply in=bla.ply out=bla
Importing 29939 vertices ...
 100%
Building topology for vector map <bla@user1>...
Registering primitives...
29939 primitives registered
29939 vertices registered
Building areas...
 100%
0 areas built
0 isles built
Attaching islands...
Attaching centroids...
 100%
Number of nodes: 0
Number of primitives: 29939
Number of points: 29939
Number of lines: 0
Number of boundaries: 0
Number of centroids: 0
Number of areas: 0
Number of isles: 0
v.in.ply complete.
GRASS 7.0.0svn (nc_spm_08_grass7):~ >

Looks all fine... But you write about faces: The manual states: "... v.in.ply is designed for large point clouds". Maybe the script needs to be expanded for more types. Can you make the file or a portion available?