<div><div dir="auto">Hi, Michalis, Seeing Gaussian Splat PLYs renderered with humanoid animation would be cool to see.  With your expertise in binary formats and binary PLY, probably an easy next step!</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John</div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 8:05 PM Michalis Kamburelis via x3d-public <<a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org" target="_blank">x3d-public@web3d.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">With big thanks to Don who provided information and pushed me to implement it!:)<br>
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1.  We support now InlineGeometry in Castle Game Engine and Castle Model Viewer.<br>
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    - I tested on a few examples, and made our own: <a href="https://github.com/castle-engine/demo-models/tree/master/x3d/inline_geometry" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/castle-engine/demo-models/tree/master/x3d/inline_geometry</a><br>
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    - You can refer to a geometry from any model format we support, including X3D, glTF, STL, PLY...: <a href="https://castle-engine.io/model_formats" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://castle-engine.io/model_formats</a><br>
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2.  We support now loading models in a PLY format.<br>
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    - ASCII and binary versions.<br>
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    - Faces or without faces (point cloud, i.e. just our PointSet).<br>
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    - Testcases include <a href="https://github.com/castle-engine/demo-models/tree/master/ply" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/castle-engine/demo-models/tree/master/ply</a> and <a href="https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/kaktus-ply-7b7cc7188f17468595506500e186a9c0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/kaktus-ply-7b7cc7188f17468595506500e186a9c0</a> .<br>
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More information and screenshots about both features in our news post on <a href="https://castle-engine.io/wp/2026/04/06/support-for-ply-model-format-and-inlinegeometry-node/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://castle-engine.io/wp/2026/04/06/support-for-ply-model-format-and-inlinegeometry-node/</a> .<br>
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They are available to test right now if you download <br>
- the "snapshot" version of Castle Model Viewer <a href="https://castle-engine.io/castle-model-viewer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://castle-engine.io/castle-model-viewer</a> <br>
- or full engine from <a href="https://castle-engine.io/download" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://castle-engine.io/download</a> .<br>
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Regards,<br>
Michalis<br>
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