1. It did not support normals applied to individual vertices.
2. It would only support red / green / blue colour triples, but the pmvs models are generated with diffuse colours. (The PLY format, http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/ply/, lists specular and ambient colour forms as well.)
To partially overcome these limitations, please find attached modified versions of
src/osgPlugins/ply/vertexData.cpp
src/osgPlugins/ply/vertexData.h
The changes I've made are:
1. I have changed the boolean hasColor flag to a vertexField (which is a boolean operation on an enum) to indicate what fields are present in the ply file. (This is required because Turk's ply reader spits out warnings for every line where you try to read fields which do not exist.)
2. I have modified the code to apply valid normals to either triangles or vertices.
3. I have kludged in "support" for the various colour variants. Specifically, all the colour specified can be read from the file. However, they are all applied in the same way (namely as a colour array, bound to each vertex)."
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