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@loaders.gl/potree

The potree loaders are still under development and are not yet considered ready for use.

Support for loading and traversing potree format point clouds.

Installation​

npm install @loaders.gl/potree
npm install @loaders.gl/core

Usage​

Intended usage only, not yet working!

import {load} from `@loaders.gl/core`;
import {PotreeLoader} from `@loaders.gl/potree`;
import {Tileset3D} from `@loaders.gl/category-3d-tiles`;

const potree = await load(POTREE_URL);
const tileset = new Tileset3D(potree);
const tilesToRender = tileset.traverse(frameData);

API​

This modules provides the following exports:

  • PotreeHierarchyChunkLoader for the hierarchy indices

Roadmap​

The plan is to provide the following loaders/writers:

  • PotreeLoader for individual tiles

PotreeLoader is intended to work with the 3d tileset classes in the @loaders.gl/3d-tiles module.

  • Tileset3D class will be generalized to accept loaded potree tilesets.

Attribution​

The PotreeLoader is a fork of Markus Schuetz' potree code (https://github.com/potree/potree) under BSD-2 clause license.