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Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2022 2:55 pm**

Hi,

I'm trying to rasterize a pointcloud using the command line interface.

Using the GUI version, I get a nice colored .png image

: rasterize_gui.png (114.48 KiB) Viewed 566 times

However, using the CLI, I get a monochrome .tif

: rasterize_cli.tif.png (258.68 KiB) Viewed 566 times

The command used was:

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CloudCompare -O my_pcd.pcd -RASTERIZE -GRID_STEP 0.02 -VERT_DIR 0 -OUTPUT_RASTER_RGB

How can I get something similar to the GUI version using CLI? i.e. I want .png instead of .tif

Arif

Posted: **Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:36 pm**

In command line mode, the Rasterize tool can only export rasters to (geo)tiff. And it will save the altitude of points as is, and not as RGB colors or anything. The colored display you see in the GUI version is the false coloring CloudCompare applies on these altitudes (or on the values of the active scalar field).

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