PLY Models sourced from Lumalabs won't load.

[dzeitman]

Unable to load and render a ply export from Lumalabs.

Is there any preprocessing of ply models required?

MetalSplat.SplatError.plyNonFloatPropertyFound

file header: Drawble size; (208.5, 298.5) ply format binary_little_endian 1.0 comment Created by Open3D element vertex 1455750 Got numpoints: 1455750 property double x property double y property double z property double nx property double ny property double nz property uchar red property uchar green property uchar blue element face 2886337 property list uchar uint vertex_indices end_header

[cclaan]

The PLY files must be produced by the gaussian splat training process as they contain special per point properties. Here's a blog post with some more info on how to do it https://www.reshot.ai/3d-gaussian-splatting