MeshTopology.Point not rendering, workaround?

Hello,

I have already reported this problem as a bug and got reaction that is a known problem, but is not going to be fixed. The issue tracker: https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/product/unity/issues/guid/930371

However would still like to render a pointcloud in WebGL so i'm trying to think of a solution to do this. What i could think of rigth now is creating a seperate mesh for each point but i assume this is gonna have a huge impact on performance since we are talking about 10.000.000 points that need to be rendered.

Does anyone have suggestions that would help without affecting the performance?

 

I have not tried this.

Let me elaborate more on what exactly i'm trying to achieve.
I'm currently using BAPointCloudRenderer plugin which requires the Potree pointcloud format. I rewrote parts of the plugin to work with coroutines instead of threads. This is with quite good results, the loading is now done in coroutines and with UnityWebRequests. The plugin takes care of which part of the pointcloud needs to be rendered and loads this accordingly with a max pointcloud size of 10million (the total size of the current pointcloud i'm loading is 1.5 billion points). If i try to render the cloud with MeshTopology.Line it works with a decent framerate.

I don't think i'll need to bake a mesh with the current method i'm using but i am going to try using particle systems for showing the loaded points.

 

It's been a while, but I managed to visualise the pointcloud in WebGL with particle systems, and the performance is still good. I just take the meshes that gets generated by Potree and feed them to particle systems.