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This page describes the ply2vrmesh command-line utility.

Overview

The ply2vrmesh command-line utility can convert .ply, .obj, .bin, .geo, .bgeo, .hclassic, .bhclassic, .abc and .vrscene files to .vrmesh files for rendering with V-Ray through V-Ray Proxy Objects .

V-Ray for Houdini > OBJ GEO PLY to .vrmesh converter > ply2vrmesh_mayaCP.png

UI Paths

Currently, on all operational systems the ply2vrmesh.exe is located in V-Ray's folder (where the V-Ray files are extracted) > appsdk > bin.

Notes

The converter works with most of the popular .ply formats, both ASCII and binary, big-endian, or little-endian.
In addition to the geometric data (faces and vertices), the converter recognizes some of the most common additional channels such as diffuse surface color. Vertex colors are recognized if they are specified as "red", "green", and "blue" or "diffuse_red", "diffuse_green", and "diffuse_blue" vertex properties.