Feature Request Better control over point cloud visualization

Right now the point cloud prefab uses a particle system of which we can set the color, size and material.

Only setting color/size/material is pretty limited. Would it be possible to allow us to set more properties?

Specifically I would want to control the color/alpha over lifetime, and also I want to add noise to the position of the particles (only visually of course). Also instead of just having a constant size, I would want to have a random size between 2 constants. I'm already setting this in the particle system inspector, but ARPointCloudParticleVisualizer.cs just doesn't pick up on it.

If anybody knows a way to control these types of things, that would be great!

Cheers,

Alex

 

I'm afraid you have to write a custom ARPointCloudParticleVisualizer to support these features. The current implementation sets these particle properties, so any modification done in ParticleSystem inspector will be overwritten:

Code (CSharp):

1. for (int i = 0; i < numParticles; ++i)
2. {
3.     m_Particles[i].startColor = color;
4.     m_Particles[i].startSize = size;
5.     m_Particles[i].position = points[i];
6.     m_Particles[i].remainingLifetime = 1f;
7. }

 

Yup that's what I saw :/ I'll try writing my own them, not sure how to hook it up though but I'll do some research. Thanks!