*** PointCloud Viewer & Tools for Unity ***

v1.8

- Added: Multithread DX11 Viewer loading and Point Picking (enable [x] useThreading at BinaryViewerDX11 component)

- Added: Experimental point picking with measuring (see example scene: BinaryViewerDX11WithMeasuring.scene)

- Added: Runtime raw point cloud viewer (parses raw pointclouds, see example scene: RuntimeParserLoaderDX11.scene)

- Added: BinaryViewerDx11.cs now has public bool option [x] LoadAtStart, if enabled, ReadPointCloud() is called at Start()

- Added: Example scene "LoadMultipleDX11CloudsThreaded.scene", to spawn multiple DX11 viewers with different clouds

- Added: MeshConverter: You can now convert multiple point clouds to meshes by dragging whole folder to the PointCloud Source-field)

- Added: New DX11 shaders to support PointSize in DX11 mode, Separate version for Linear Lighting *You can access them from the link inside PointCloudTools/Materials/Shaders/Extras/

- Fixed: MeshConverter: Optimize Mesh Point cloud feature now works (currently points are sorted by X axis, no other options yet)

- Fixed: Some Catia ascii files failed to import (because extra characters in comments / header)

- Fixed: Created meshes now have disabled light and blend probes (since those features are not used)

- Fixed: Fixed missing script error in "scene_VideoDepthExtrude.scene"

- Fixed: MeshConverter failed with large clouds (because PointData struct used too much memory)

- Fixed: `System.IO.File' does not contain a definition for `ReadAllBytes' (Caused by having SamsungTV as target platform)

- Changed: BinaryViewerDx11.cs changed OnDisable() to OnDestroy() instead (so that gameobject can be disabled, and re-enabled)

- Changed: BinaryReader now gives warning if file is too large to read (instead of crashing or error messages)

- Changed: Renamed/Moved DX11-Viewer shaders under UnityCoder/PointCloud/DX11/*

- Changed: Renamed/Moved Mesh shaders under UnityCoder/PointCloud/Mesh/*

- Changed: Renamed/Cleaned folders

- Changed: Moved PeekHeader logic into separate script

- Changed: Not using PointData struct anymore since it caused memory and sorting issues

- Changed: Moved WebplayerViewerDX11.scene into Old/ folder, since webplayer is removed on 5.4 already

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v1.7

- Added: PointCloud2Mesh now has basic LOD mesh generation (with adjustable LOD amount)

- Added: Link for custom PointMeshSizeDX11 shaders (can adjust point size for mesh points in DX11 mode, since point size is not supported in DX11) *See Materials/Shaders/Extras-folder)

- Fixed: Unity5.2 or later couldnt set output filename in save dialog

- Fixed: CloudCompare PLY file had extra comment in header, it gets correctly skipped now

- Note: LOD meshes are not saved to project folder, they currently live in the scene only

- Note: Optimize Points & Decimate points are not supported with Brekel PointCloud2Binary importer

- Known issues: Optimize Points does not work properly, loses precision in some cases

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v1.6

- Added: New material "PointCloudColorsMeshAlpha.material" (and shader "PointCloudMeshColorsAlpha.shader") with adjustable color tint & alpha

- Added: PointCloud2Mesh now imports .LAS & .PTS files

- Added: **Experimental** PseudoLight & VertexPush scene "scene_MeshPointPush" for mesh clouds (sets point brightness based on distance to give object and pushes(displaces) points away form given object)

- Added: Basic decimate cloud for PointCloud2Mesh (remove every #nth point)

- Added: Display selected file size (below sourcefile field)

- Added: **Experimental** [x] Optimize Points for PointCloud2Mesh (easier to see from scene view while playing), it sorts the points along X axis (to allow mesh pieces to get culled easier), but doesnt work well with all values, if your cloud seems to be missing points, disable Optimize points.

- Changed: Project is now updated to Unity5.1

- Changed: Point data is now internally read as doubles instead of floats (to avoid loss of precision during scaling)

- Changed: DX11 viewer & DX11 shaders now use less memory

- Changed: Improved .LAS parsing PointDataRecordFormats #2 & #3 are now supported

- Changed: With PointCloud2Mesh you dont need to select import format anymore, instead parser tries to read any suitable point cloud data (in common formats)

- Changed: Progress bar now also display during mesh saving

- Changed: Deleted 20 mesh clouds from "scene_mobile_heavy01.scene" to make it lighter

- Fixed: PointCloud2Mesh AutoOffset (it didnt work if FlipYZ was not enabled)

- Fixed: Fixed several parsing problems with some files (.asc, .pts, .las, .xyz)

- Fixed: .LAS colors values are now scaled to 0-255 (some files had different ranges)

- Note: DX11 Point clouds doesnt seem to work if Unity v5.x "[x] Virtual Reality Supported" is enabled

- Note: DX11 point clouds or Mesh point clouds doesnt seem to work with WebGL viewer

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v1.5

- Added: ".LAS" import support for binary cloud converter *Only LAS format#2 is currently supported

- Added: ".PTS" import support for binary cloud converter (PTS: XYZ, XYZI, XYZIRGB, XYZRGB) *For now intensity value can be converted as RGB

- Added: "Window/PointCloudTools/Create test binary cloud" for creating random point clouds with adjustable point amount (for debug purposes)

- Added: "Window/PointCloudTools/Show header data helper" for printing out text based file headers (for debug purposes, to see what the file contains, ascii only)

- Added: "isLoading" boolean to check if we are still in loading

- Changed: Added "rotateWithRightMouse" bool into "SimpleSmoothMouseLook.cs", so you can rotate view while right mouse button is down

- Changed: BinaryViewer now automatically adds ".bin" to end of the file, if its missing in the inspector field

- Changed: .ASC reader now tries to skip all comment lines from start of the file (to allow reading Geomagic .asc files)

- Fixed: Manual offset values (had .x for all axis, instead of .x .y .z)

- Fixed: BinaryConverter now removes double or triple spaces between values, to fix Geomagic .asc import

- Note: MeshConverter does not yet support .LAS or .PTS importing (use some external tools to convert them to another supported format)

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v1.4

- Added: Brekel Binary & Animated Frames viewer support (Experimental)

- Added: Brekel Binary Animated Frames to Mesh conversion support (Experimental)

- Added: Mobile demo scene (using meshes) "scene_mobile_heavy01.scene"

- Changed: Faster binary loading *If you experience out of memory problems, do let me know! *2gb is max file size..

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v1.3

- Added: WebplayerViewerDX11 (loads binary file from url using WWW)

- Added: Import normals (PLY format only and PointCloud2MeshConverter only. Not for DX11 yet)

- Added: Shader+Materials with normals (PointCloudColorsNormalsMesh)

- Starting to cleanup "BinaryViewerDX11", moved code from Start() into ReadPointCloud()

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v1.2

- Fixed: PointCloud2MeshConverter failed to save mesh, if point amount was less than given vertex limit amount

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v1.1

- Initial release

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