build_pointcloud(3)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Arcan Lua API corner — this is the manual page for build_pointcloud(3), and it's giving 3D point-cloud realness ✨

build_pointcloud — create a 3D object that is comprised of a cloud of points 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole call is literally:

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build_pointcloud( pointcount, nmaps )

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

here's the tea: build_pointcloud evenly distributes pointcount points in a bounding volume from -1,-1,-1 to 1,1,1. no cap 🫶

and what's it for? it's primarily intended to be manipulated with a vertex shader and a possible lookup texture. periodt 💅✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• 3d — yeah, go peek over there too, iykyk 👀💖

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mwah 💋 this page is sourced from the 3d section, dated October 2026, and it's all build_pointcloud(3) energy — bye bestie 🫶🎀