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UPDATE : I tried again exporting color scales from cloudcompare and it DOES work !

So in the end, it was a matter of xml format.

Thank you for you help.

Best regards

H

The file at the gist you linked to is not a cloud compare format for color scales. But once you created an export from CC it should have worked with that file if it was the only issue.

Since it didn't work for you can you follow these steps to eliminate the GTK issues first
askUbuntu.com GTK ...

Can you try with mine:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CloudCompare>
<ColorScale version="1">
<Properties>
<name>Viridis_copy</name>
<uuid>{f1f6e0a0-c522-4a00-9cee-ef644f2133e1}</uuid>
<absolute>0</absolute>
</Properties>
<Data>
<step r="68" g="1" b="84" pos="0"/>
<step r="68" g ...

It works on my side with this command:
-AUTO_SAVE OFF -C_EXPORT_FMT PLY -PLY_EXPORT_FMT ASCII -O "F:\Data\ASCII\Lyon_copy.asc" -SET_ACTIVE_SF 1 -SF_COLOR_SCALE "F:\Data\ASCII\veridis.xml" -SF_CONVERT_TO_RGB TRUE -NO_TIMESTAMP -SAVE_CLOUDS

(I always put quotes around file paths just in case - even ...

Hello,

Thank you for you replies.

I'm unable to attach the file to this message because the format doesn't seem to fit but I've downloaded it from this page : https://gist.github.com/binarybottle/9b ... 8aabac12dc

Hello,

I am trying to batch export a series of .csv pointclouds into .ply. I managed to use the command lines to do so but I cannot seem to apply a specific color scale to each pointcloud. Here is my command line (which is nested in a for loop) :

cloudcompare.CloudCompare -SILENT -AUTO_SAVE OFF -C ...