# keijiro/Pcx

Point cloud importer & renderer for Unity

Repository: https://github.com/keijiro/Pcx
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pcx
Language: C#
License: Unlicense
License Family: permissive
Topics: unity, unity3d, point-cloud, 3d-scan, graphics, shader
Last push: 2022-08-23T11:11:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3235, "days_push": 1471, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1513, forks 215 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:56.274077+00:00)

## What it is
Pcx is a Unity plugin that imports and renders point cloud data, supporting PLY binary little-endian files. It provides mesh, ComputeBuffer, and texture container types plus point and disk rendering shaders, including Visual Effect Graph integration.

## Use cases
- import ply point clouds into unity
- render 3d scan point clouds in unity
- visualize lidar scans in a game engine
- bake point clouds into textures for vfx graph
- render point clouds as disks with custom shaders

## When to choose
- you work in Unity and need to import PLY point cloud data
- you want lightweight point cloud rendering with custom shaders
- you need point cloud assets usable with Visual Effect Graph

## When to avoid
- you need formats other than PLY binary little-endian
- you use D3D11/12 and need adjustable point sizes with point primitives
- your project requires actively developed point cloud tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: graphics, image-processing
- domain: graphics
- platform: game-engine, cross-platform
- tags: unity, point-cloud, ply-importer, shader, vfx-graph, game-development, 3d-scan

## Member repositories
- keijiro/Pcx (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:56.274077+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:32:16.410607+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/keijiro/Pcx (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:56.274077+00:00, sha 6f5e92e2ff72)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.