How to load *.ply content properly

cangooroo3D

Hello everybody,

i am quite new to work with 3D content in qt and i got a question regarding the proper loading of *.ply formats. I created a small example, based on the basicshapes-example from qt, just loading my personal .ply file, instead of using the predefined 3D-meshes.

// code
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
Qt3DExtras::Qt3DWindow *view = new Qt3DExtras::Qt3DWindow();
view->defaultFrameGraph()->setClearColor(QColor(QRgb(0x4d4d4f)));
QWidget *container = QWidget::createWindowContainer(view);
QSize screenSize = view->screen()->size();
container->setMinimumSize(QSize(200, 100));
container->setMaximumSize(screenSize);

QWidget *widget = new QWidget;
QHBoxLayout *hLayout = new QHBoxLayout(widget);
hLayout->addWidget(container, 1);

widget->setWindowTitle(QStringLiteral("Basic shapes"));

Qt3DInput::QInputAspect *input = new Qt3DInput::QInputAspect;
view->registerAspect(input);

// Root entity
Qt3DCore::QEntity *rootEntity = new Qt3DCore::QEntity();

// Camera
Qt3DRender::QCamera *cameraEntity = view->camera();

cameraEntity->lens()->setPerspectiveProjection(45.0f, 16.0f/9.0f, 0.1f, 100000.0f);
cameraEntity->setPosition(QVector3D(-30000, 0, 20000.0f));
cameraEntity->setUpVector(QVector3D(0, 0, 1));
cameraEntity->setViewCenter(QVector3D(0, 0, 10000));

Qt3DCore::QEntity *lightEntity = new Qt3DCore::QEntity(rootEntity);
Qt3DRender::QPointLight *light = new Qt3DRender::QPointLight(lightEntity);
light->setColor("white");
light->setIntensity(1);
lightEntity->addComponent(light);
Qt3DCore::QTransform *lightTransform = new Qt3DCore::QTransform(lightEntity);
lightTransform->setTranslation(cameraEntity->position());
lightEntity->addComponent(lightTransform);

//Loading .ply data
QUrl data = QUrl::fromLocalFile("demo_data.ply");
qDebug() << data << data.isValid() << data.toLocalFile() << QFileInfo(data.toLocalFile()).exists() << data.fileName();

Qt3DRender::QMesh *bodyMesh = new Qt3DRender::QMesh();
bodyMesh->setMeshName("bodyMesh");
bodyMesh->setSource(data);

Qt3DCore::QTransform *bodyTransform = new Qt3DCore::QTransform;
bodyTransform->setScale3D(QVector3D(10.0, 10.0, 10.0));

Qt3DExtras::QPhongMaterial *bodyMaterial = new Qt3DExtras::QPhongMaterial();
bodyMaterial->setDiffuse(QColor(QRgb(0x928327)));

Qt3DCore::QEntity *plyEntity = new Qt3DCore::QEntity(rootEntity);
plyEntity->addComponent(bodyMesh);
plyEntity->addComponent(bodyMaterial);
plyEntity->addComponent(bodyTransform);

// Set root object of the scene
view->setRootEntity(rootEntity);

// Show window
widget->show();
widget->resize(1200, 800);

return app.exec();

}

This works fine on my machine, in Visual Studio as well as using the executable directly. Now I want to take this small programm to another windows machine. The original basicshapes example runs perfectly fine on the other machine, my version does not. The 3D content is not loaded, the Qt3DRender::QMesh::Status function returns a 3 (An error occurred while loading the mesh). So it seems to be a problem on loading the *.ply file, which is stored in the same folder as the executable. The line

qDebug() << data << data.isValid() << data.toLocalFile() << QFileInfo(data.toLocalFile()).exists() << data.fileName();

says "true" for the QFileInfo(data.toLocalFile()).exists() part.

So I don't know, why the 3D data cannot be loaded. Any suggestions? Any additional libs I need to add?

Thanks a lot,

c.

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Did you do a complete deployment of your application using windeployqt ? You might be missing some plugins otherwise.

By the way, what version of Qt are you using ?

cangooroo3D

@SGaist Man, you saved my day. I didn't know this one and it completely worked so far. Thank's a lot!!