.TH DRACO_ENCODER 1 "" "" "Draco Compression"
.SH NAME
draco_encoder \- compress 3D geometric meshes and point clouds
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SY draco_encoder
.BR \-i " " \fIinput\fR
.OP \-o output
.RI [ options ]
.YS
.SH DESCRIPTION
Draco is a format for efficient compression of 3D graphics data such as
geometric meshes or point clouds.
.B draco_encoder
is the compression tool.
.PP
The following options are available:
.TP
.BR \-i " " \fIinput\fR
input file name in
.B .ply
or
.B .obj
format
.TP
.BR \-o " " \fIoutput\fR
output file name
.TP
.BR \-qp " " \fIvalue\fR
quantization bits for the position (default: 11)
.TP
.BR \-qt " " \fIvalue\fR
quantization bits for the texture coordinates (default: 10)
.TP
.BR \-qn " " \fIvalue\fR
quantization bits for the normal vector (default: 8)
.TP
.BR \-qg " " \fIvalue\fR
quantization bits for any generic attribute (default: 8)
.TP
.BR \-cl " " \fIvalue\fR
compression level from 0 to 10 (default: 7)
.TP
.BR \-\-skip " " \fIattribute\fR
skip a given attribute (NORMAL, TEX_COORD, GENERIC)
.TP
.B \-\-metadata
use metadata to encode extra information in mesh files
.TP
.B \-point_cloud
force the input to be encoded as a point cloud
.PP
Negative quantization values will skip the specified attribute
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR draco_decoder "(1), " draco_transcoder (1)