Render Point Clouds in Blender with Cycles (.ply)
Channel: Nicko16
Date: 2022-06-10

UPDATE - If you are using Blender 3.6.8 or above, color attributes are supported natively in the PLY importer, so you can skip to 01:36 in this tutorial, please note the new native importer is called "Stanford PLY (.ply)". and the checkboxes on the importer dialog are optional.

In this video I show you how to import a .ply file into Blender and render it with colour attributes using cycles.

You can find the import-ply-as-verts repository here:
https://github.com/TombstoneTumbleweedArt/import-ply-as-verts

You can find the pointcloud file used in this tutorial here (click the download link underneath the 3D viewer):
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/point-cloud-b921e0879e0645af8f472ee545b15f5b

You can see my previous video on Point Cloud Visualizer here:
https://youtu.be/eXct_7k779Q