[Paraview] Saving Vertex Colors in .ply files using ParaView

[Brad King]

Brad Howard wrote:
> I am currently trying to use ParaView to decimate and save some .ply
> files.  However, I can't get the ParaView option of save data to retain
> vertex colors.  I even encounter this problem when I open a .ply file,
> do nothing to it, and then try to save it back as a .ply file.  It still
> looks fine in the view window but once I open the saved version the
> color is all gone.  Does ParaView not support vertex color for .ply
> models or am I doing something incorrectly?

ParaView has very minimal support for the .ply format.  You can add it 
as a feature request here:

http://www.paraview.org/Bug

but we have no plans to implement it any time soon.

-Brad