# More robust point attributes

**URL:** <https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/more-robust-point-attributes/23355>\
**Category:** Developer\
**Created:** [December 21, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/more-robust-point-attributes/23355 "2023-12-21T16:43:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![partiallyfrozen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@partiallyfrozen](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/partiallyfrozen)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/more-robust-point-attributes/23355/1 "2023-12-21T16:43:10Z")

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I work in Visual Effects and would love to have more support for per point attributes. Currently on export the \*.ply only puts out Color, Normal, Position, and Alpha.

I would love to get the Frame number per point so it would allow post processing to be much more easier.

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**Author:** ![X3msnake](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.revopoint3d.com/x3msnake/32/5218_2.png) [@X3msnake](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/X3msnake)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/more-robust-point-attributes/23355/2 "2023-12-26T11:40:25Z")

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Not sure what you are even asking here, can you exemplify with your tools?

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**Author:** ![partiallyfrozen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@partiallyfrozen](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/partiallyfrozen)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/more-robust-point-attributes/23355/3 "2023-12-26T20:44:09Z")

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When exporting data from Revo, each point/vertex gets a set of information attacthed to it. Right now when I export a point cloud to \*.ply it writes each position of a point, each point’s Normal vector, each point’s color vector, and an Alpha per point.

It would be great if you ether A.) supported \*.USD point exports and exposed more of the raw data that is assigned to each point in the point cloud, or B.) look to adding more attributed to \*.PLY

In relation to ply you can put the frame number into a new property value per vertex.

As illustrated in the image below. There are only 5 point “attributes” and I would love to get a 6th named Frame Number. For each point, it would be an attribute that is the frame number from the scan.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/revopoint3d/original/3X/4/9/49bf93dc06601f05cb873afd7b3e31a47f114e1c.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![X3msnake](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.revopoint3d.com/x3msnake/32/5218_2.png) [@X3msnake](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/X3msnake)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/more-robust-point-attributes/23355/4 "2023-12-27T09:37:59Z")

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I see, that is interesting…

@Revopoint-Jane @Revopoint-Cassie  
How feasable would be to implement such information.

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**Author:** ![Revopoint-Jane](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.revopoint3d.com/revopoint-jane/32/12484_2.png) [@Revopoint-Jane](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/u/Revopoint-Jane)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.revopoint3d.com/t/more-robust-point-attributes/23355/5 "2023-12-27T10:54:54Z")

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Hi @partiallyfrozen

Thank you for your suggestion, we will feed this back to our product team. They will evaluate this suggestion to see if it can be implemented in future software.