Point Cloud Plugin

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@anonymous_user_a8cdcc08id.gillespie

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Thanks for the update on this - it’s awesome to be able to do this at runtime so great work. Think the incremental display approach could be really cool - eg loading every nth line of scan data initially and filling in the gaps. Otherwise, we were considering a “lazy loading” approach where there are subsampled scans which are loaded in initially however that will mean there is a lot of duplicate data sitting on our servers somewhere, not to mention the additional work producing the sub sampled data sets. Maybe this is more readily implementable with ASCII formats?

Hi @.gillespie

The problem is in accessing the memory with already imported parts of the data, not the source file. The only way I could do this without risking a crash would be something like that:

• Lock asset for insertion
• Insert a small batch of points
• Unlock
• Lock for rendering
• Render
• Unlock
• Lock for insertion
  (…)

However, the amount of locking would cripple the performance considerably.
I will definitely look into this in the future, as I liked the overall idea (when it worked, it looked very cool! )