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About this viewer
PLY Viewer
The Character XYZ PLY Viewer opens Stanford .ply files in a web browser and reports their vertex and triangle counts, bounding dimensions and per-vertex colour when the file carries it. PLY is the usual output of photogrammetry and 3D scanning, and the file is read on your own device rather than uploaded.
.ply/scan meshes, with vertex colours when the file carries them
Reports
What you can inspect
- Skeleton and rig
- Every bone by name with the count, plus an overlay drawn over the model, so you can tell a 9-joint production rig from a 92-bone Rigify export without opening Blender.
- Morph targets
- Every morph target by name, grouped per mesh, each with a live weight slider so you can drive a shape and see it move.
- ARKit-52 blendshape check
- Which of the 52 standard ARKit blendshapes your model has and which are missing, broken down by facial area — the answer to why a face will not drive from a phone capture. It reads the common naming conventions, and names the facial set your file is using when it turns out not to be ARKit's.
- Textures and VRAM budget
- Each texture with the slot it fills and its resolution, plus an estimated GPU memory total, so you can see which map is blowing the budget.
- Animation clips
- Every clip in the file with its real duration, playable with speed and looping — including takes that ship as separate GLBs. Clip changes use inertial blending, so a limb's motion carries through the cut instead of stalling at it.
- Mesh statistics
- Vertex and triangle counts, material and texture counts, bone and morph-target counts, and the model's bounding dimensions.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Why is my PLY scan grey instead of coloured?
Because not every PLY carries colour. The format stores it as per-vertex red, green and blue properties, which scanners write and mesh exporters often do not. When those properties are present this viewer renders them; when they are absent there is no colour in the file to show.
Can this open a PLY point cloud?
It opens PLY meshes, which is what most photogrammetry pipelines export once the cloud has been reconstructed. A pure point cloud with no faces will report its vertex count but has no surface to shade.
Is ASCII or binary PLY supported?
Both. The header declares which one it is and the loader follows it, so a file from any scanner or reconstruction tool opens the same way.
Elsewhere
Other formats
Drop a 3D model here
or choose a file — nothing is uploaded
Your file never leaves your browser. There is no upload, no account and no server-side processing.