Lidar/Point cloud generation

[Zerksiz]

Hi guys,

I am pretty new to unreal engine and I am currently trying to generate point cloud data from a custom world I have created. I understand that there is a plugin that allows you to import point cloud data into unreal engine but is there anyway to generate point cloud data off of existing mesh?

[ruigol (Deep Pixel Studio)]

you can use niagara to create points from a mesh and do various other things to it

[SupportiveEntity]

Hey there @Zerksiz! Welcome to the community! Are you trying to generate point cloud data raw or just populating an empty dataset? This thread might be able to help:

Populating empty LiDAR point cloud

Hey @GIS_UE5 , I created an example project four you. There are currently bugs with LiDAr or maybe some of the functions are intendend for another use I was not capable of to find out. E.g. InsertPoints or InsertPoint do add points but without color. Maybe you have to initialize the PointCloud again after that, but didn’t work A imported PointCloud always told me about changes and had to remove everything or kept the points but they were then all over the place, without me changing anything.…