maintaining point color in viewport during manual selection

[motionprojects]

Dear odforcers,

This is a general problem when I am selecting points in point cloud, e.g. scattered points with point color visible in viewport.

I have to make some precise hand-selections of points for grouping, these require a lot of viewport navigation and refining with lasso or marquee select to get them just right.

Problem is as soon as select any points, the points go blue, and I no longer have the color information to help guide me.

I'm using latest build on Mac Pro Lion. Have tried H11, and both GL modes, and result is the same.

Any help greatly appreciated.

[gaurav]

Dear odforcers,

This is a general problem when I am selecting points in point cloud, e.g. scattered points with point color visible in viewport.

I have to make some precise hand-selections of points for grouping, these require a lot of viewport navigation and refining with lasso or marquee select to get them just right.

Problem is as soon as select any points, the points go blue, and I no longer have the color information to help guide me.

I'm using latest build on Mac Pro Lion. Have tried H11, and both GL modes, and result is the same.

Any help greatly appreciated.

I too faced similar situation sometime ago.

Following worked for me :

1. Scene renderer - h11

2. Add particle system to the point cloud using add sop.

3. Choose Flat or smooth shading in the viewport

Just make sure, you avoid any wire+ shade modes.

hth,