Hi all,

I tracked down the issue and will upload it to CRAN the next days (as it
happens I pushed a new version and now have to wait until all checks are
run by CRAN)
Now texture import works.
You can already update using devtools as described here:
https://github.com/zarquon42b/Rvcg#installation-of-the-r-package-rvcg-latest-development-code-using-devtools


Best
Stefan

On 16/12/14 19:33, Stefan Schlager wrote:
> Hi Emma,
> which version of Rvcg did you use?
> could you send me the file for debugging?
> I have tested the function with a variety of textured files without
> issues (at least no R crashes).
> in case your file is not a png and/or split into multiple images, you
> should get a message stating:
>
> please convert texture images to png format
> only single texture files supported, only first one stored
>
> and if that is the case, when rendering with rgl you will get a warning:
>
> Warning message:
> In rgl.material(...) :
>   RGL: Pixmap load: unable to open file 'Desktop/smilla1_0.png' for
> reading
>
> Best
> Stefan
>
> On 16/12/14 05:02, Emma Sherratt wrote:
>> Dear David and Stefan,
>>
>> The issue was that the PLY file of David has textures, which our
>> read.ply function currently does not support. Resaving the file
>> without the texture information made the file readable.
>>
>> FYI Stefan, the original file read fine with your vsgImport function,
>> but only when readcolor=FALSE. When TRUE, it crashed R.
>>
>> Emma
>>
>> On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:34:00 UTC+11, Stefan Schlager wrote:
>>
>>     Hi David,
>>     You can use either vcgImport from Rvcg or file2mesh from Morpho
>>     (which is basically the same) to import all kinds of meshes (stl,
>>     obj, ply) binary and ascii into an object of class "mesh3d"
>>
>>     Best
>>     Stefan
>>
>>     On 15/12/14 01:52, David Katz wrote:
>>>     Hello,
>>>
>>>     When I try to read a 3D surface file (ply ascii format) into
>>>     geomorph, I get the following error: 
>>>
>>>     "Error in dim(points) <- c(ncolpts, npoints) : 
>>>       dims [product 6426920] do not match the length of object
>>>     [5784228]"
>>>
>>>     For what it's worth, length of object is /exactly /90% of dims.
>>>
>>>     Does anyone have an idea where this problem is coming from and
>>>     how to fix it? Note that the model opens without difficulty as a
>>>     binary ply in Geomagic. 
>>>
>>>     Thanks.
>>>
>>>     David Katz
>>>
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