Btw, I also checked your introduction video. Your example file will be open with full view but mine is open without seeing the complete view regardless of how I adjust the angle and zoom in/out.

Hi @meixuan-stephanie,

thanks for raising the issue. The behaviour you are describing is caused by the OpenGL's clipping (→ Clip space). OpenGL, which is rendering your point cloud, needs to know a "box" or "frustum" with a minimum distance (near_plane) and maximum distance (far_plane) in which it should still display the objects. Points before and after these planes are not visualized.

However, I noticed that my default settings (near_plane=0.5 and far_plane=30 [m]) may not be suitable for all users. So I increased the clip space to the following values, which should be reasonable given the max. ranges of current depth sensors:

• near_plane = 0.1 [m]
• far_plane = 300 [m]

I also added the possibility to change these settings in the config.

I hope this solves your problem.

For the initial display of the point cloud: I am aware of this problem but it is difficult to find a perfect start visualization for all kind of different point cloud constellations (size, distance, ...). I will work on that in the future.

Thank you so much for your reply and help. Before I reinstall it to test the overview, I'd like to ask another question when using this tool. It is hard to rotate the model as well. FYI, I'm a Mac user, not sure if the control button is different for rotation. I did press shift and use left mouse or the adjust the small ball displayed on the main channel. Even press c and v or band n from the keyboard to see if the rotation axis could change. However, it seems that I could only rotate along one axis only. The setting column did not appear as you demo from the video. That's the only option displayed.

Thanks in advance again.

@ch-sa

Hi @meixuan-stephanie,

thanks for the hint. There are some compatibility issues with the integrated menu bar on Macs.

That's why I enforced to show the menu bar inside the application window. But apparently Mac decides to drop the menu bar then altogether. :/

I will revert to the integrated menu bar again soon.

Hi @ch-sa,

Thank you again for your reply and help.

@meixuan-stephanie I reset the menu bar to the native one again (8cd0d57). Could you check if it is visible now to you?
→ it probably still won't show the ticks at the ckeck actions in the menu, though.