Currently if you empty the file field on a point file in it won’t unload the file but will keep the cloud in memory. Whether or not this is intended or not I don’t know but it’s inconsistent with other file parameters so thought I’d report.
It would also be handy if the Point File In POP had a reload pulse parameter. Currently the only way to reload is through bypass.
It might be a hunch of mine but it also seems that the Point File TOP loads PLY’s a bit faster than the POP. If I load a PLY of 1 million points it always hangs for a split second on the TOP regardless of seeking etc but hangs a lot more on the POP.
As a side note: if I save out the position and colour as a dds (exr is slow) then the point file in TOP converting to a POP doesn’t really hang much at all and can load the file really quickly. I’m not really saying anything needs improving as such here but perhaps some kind of lazy loading on the POP and dds support might make loading more efficient. I’m guessing there’s a quality loss there as the memory footprint on a dds is much less than an exr.