PLY Models sourced from Lumalabs won't load.

[dzeitman]

Unable to load and render a ply export from Lumalabs.

Is there any preprocessing of ply models required?

MetalSplat.SplatError.plyNonFloatPropertyFound

file header:
Drawble size; (208.5, 298.5)
ply
format binary_little_endian 1.0
comment Created by Open3D
element vertex 1455750
Got numpoints: 1455750
property double x
property double y
property double z
property double nx
property double ny
property double nz
property uchar red
property uchar green
property uchar blue
element face 2886337
property list uchar uint vertex_indices
end_header

[cclaan]

The PLY files must be produced by the gaussian splat training process as they contain special per point properties. Here's a blog post with some more info on how to do it https://www.reshot.ai/3d-gaussian-splatting