struggling to view Cloud Verticies in RGB Color

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BFree42
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struggling to view Cloud Verticies in RGB Color

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I'm very sorry to bother everyone with this question. The answer is probably obvious but I've been failing to find it for the past hour.
How can I view my point cloud in CC using the RGB info for each vertex?
I made a point cloud using Metashape, I exported it in OBJ and included the vertex color information.
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I checked that the color information is included in the OBJ document by opening it in Notepad. It is, the file reads like this...

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v -1.458 -0.273 -5.958 0.823529 0.823529 0.800000
vn 0.015835 0.356280 0.934245
v -1.380 -0.274 -5.955 0.831373 0.850980 0.850980
vn -0.023659 0.496849 0.867514
v -1.372 -0.287 -5.947 0.286275 0.294118 0.298039
vn 0.134993 0.452623 0.881424
How can I display the cloud in CC such that I see the same colors as I did in Metashape?
I want to see the colors so that I can see the tape measure to determine how much to scale the file to match real world distances.
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Thank you very much for your time!
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Re: struggling to view Cloud Verticies in RGB Color

Post by daniel »

Might be a bit late, but if the texture was successfully loaded, you should see it by default. Is there an error/warning in the Console at the bottom?
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