New Features / Improvements
Completely redesigned data structure and rendering approach. This results in significantly reduced number of draw calls as well as VRAM used. Manual input of section sizes is no longer necessary, as the plugin runs adaptive spatial division
Point clouds are now processed at component, rather than actor, level. This means they can easily be blueprinted
Added option to render sprites as single triangles rather than quads, thus increasing performance. Use Single Poly Minimum LOD setting to specify at which LOD should the sprites be switched over to single poly. Use Single Poly Scale property to help mitigate potential gaps between triangles (exercise caution though, as setting it too high will negatively affect performance)
Render data (Vertex and Index Buffers) is only residing in VRAM if it is actually used (i.e. hiding or switching levels will remove the unused data sets)
There is a settings section dedicated to Color Adjustment now, you can find it under Rendering group
LOD Coloration mode now fully supports sprite view
Fast and seamless adjustment of LODs
Alpha color can now be imported and used inside the material
Significantly reduced RAM usage
Support for UE 4.20 and UE 4.21
Import All button
Point Clouds now support reimporting
Importing Point Clouds will auto-adjust the RenderMethod to avoid coloration issues
Importing Point Clouds will auto-adjust some performance settings
Improved Runtime operations
Improved importing performance
Improved RGB range detection
Fixes
Added includes that were reported missing on various platforms/compilers
The plugin should now be compilable as Editor-level plugin
Patched few memory leaks
Fixed few importing issues with column names not being recognized properly
Fixed engine crash when one of the location channels was absent
Fixed RGB scan returning strange values when no channel has been selected
Fixed RGB range not being auto-calculated properly in some situations
Brightness now correctly affects clouds with Color Override set
Setting Color Override no longer disables LOD Coloration view
Fixed engine crash when importing certain clouds
Fixed importing doubling a subset of points sometimes
Other Changes
Default Sprite Size Bias reduced from 0.775 to 0.75 as a response to the modified LOD calculation method
LOD Bias and LOD Aggressiveness have been replaced with View Distance and LOD Distribution settings allowing for much better control of density distribution.
Required Shader Model has been reduced from 5 to 4
Low precision is now always available
Filename of the file being imported is now visible inside the import window
Import window slightly redesigned
Some settings suggestions will now appear via Message Log