[MORPHMET] Re: Error with read.ply in geomorph

2014-12-15 Thread Emma Sherratt
Hi David, Turns out my answer went to only you and not this group. I believe that your ply file has duplicated vertices and so it is not able to match up the vertex coordinates to the triangles. Please send me the file so that I can examine it. Emma On Monday, 15 December 2014 11:53:17 UTC+11

Re: [MORPHMET] Error with read.ply in geomorph

2014-12-15 Thread Emma Sherratt
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 re

Re: [MORPHMET] Default orientation of 3D plots in geomorph

2014-12-15 Thread Emma Sherratt
Roger, I would suggest that you can re-orient the Procrustes coordinates to match the position you would prefer and then this will be the default in all analyses. However I'd like to get to the bottom of why you are seeing this. What version of Geomorph and were you using PrinAxes=T in gpagen? C

Re: [MORPHMET] Error with read.ply in geomorph

2014-12-15 Thread Stefan Schlager
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 fil

RE: [MORPHMET] Error with read.ply in geomorph

2014-12-15 Thread Adams, Dean [EEOBS]
David, Geomorph only reads ASCII ply files (see man pages). You could use MeshLab or some other reader to convert to ASCII ply first. Then it should be fine. Dean Dr. Dean C. Adams Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Department of Statistics Iowa State Uni