Here is a maxscript that reads a .ply file and creates a mesh for it (note that for big meshes this is very. very slow).
Script
.ply file importer
By Vladimir Koylazov · 2006-10-21
- Version
- 0.2
- Version requirement
- 4
- Date updated
- 2002-01-30
- Votes
- 9
- Download
- Download
Description
Tags: I/O
Comments (1)
Error on tested PLYs
Pixeldamage · 2014-07-31
Hi thanks for writing this script (12 years ago!). I'm getting issues trying to load some sample ply files that I've gotten from www.sampleandhold.co.uk
It appears they're using binary_little_endian 1.0 - and looking through the Maxscript it appears that it's designed to read human readable text. Is there a way to get this to work? I've also tried the MaxPlugins.De PLY importer but their link's broken.