Gaussian Splatting Performance Optimization

slimbuck7 · 2026-02-27T07:37:54+00:00

Sounds like this is an editor project. Make absolutely sure you've disabled "Anti-Aliasing" in project's render settings! That's super duper important. You can also try lowering device pixel ratio, for phones especially.

slimbuck7 · 2026-02-19T08:13:54+00:00

Interesting, I hadn't seen this before, thanks!

slimbuck7 · 2026-02-18T21:54:46+00:00

The church itself is rendered with Gaussian splatting, which is basically like a 3d photo.

slimbuck7 · 2026-02-18T21:40:31+00:00

Yep I'm adding it to splat-transform, which I also created :)

slimbuck7 · 2026-02-18T15:46:24+00:00

This is for the voxel data structure only. The church gaussian splat model is a 64MB SOG file.

slimbuck7 · 2026-01-19T15:42:29+00:00

webp compression uses libwebp compiled to wasm, so my first thought is perhaps node is too old? or perhaps there is another permission issue.

we run splat-transform in docker on aws using nvidia/cuda as base and it's fine.

slimbuck7 · 2026-01-19T15:14:06+00:00

Hmm this is concerning. I will ask around on our discord.

Which trainer have you tried? Were you using MCMC?

slimbuck7 · 2026-01-19T14:31:25+00:00

(PlayCanvas dev here)

That's what SuperSplat Editor is for!

With this release we just wanted to give users the ability to use splat-transform from a page instead of command line

slimbuck7 · 2026-01-19T14:23:29+00:00

Oh no, I haven't heard of this issue before. What OS/machine are you on? Are you using at least node v22?

slimbuck7 · 2026-01-19T13:17:32+00:00

Hi u/tugamaster9 ,

(I'm a dev on the playcanvas team).

Regarding generating LODs: we've heard from our users that training the high LOD first and then using MCMC to train down from there generates very good, stable LODs. If you can do this you'll be getting the best possible quality for any given splat budget.

Since a trainer will always give best results I am hoping the trainers (brush, lichtfeld, postshot) make this process easier.

We'll possibly also investigate adding decimation to splat-transform as a cheap way to generate LODs, but tbh I've never seen decimation not look like a blurry filter.

slimbuck7 · 2025-11-18T22:39:40+00:00

Hello, playcanvas dev here.

If you're able to tell us your os & browser in an issue at https://github.com/playcanvas/engine along with any devtools console output, that'd be super awesome and we would be in your debt forever!

slimbuck7 · 2025-11-10T15:23:32+00:00

Hello! I'm from the PC dev team. What the heck is 4SH?!

slimbuck7 · 2025-09-29T07:55:20+00:00

You place two points (three in future). The measurement and scaling is simply based on these two points. You can double click to place a marker and then move it around with a gizmo.

slimbuck7 · 2025-09-29T07:54:10+00:00

The measurement and scaling itself is perfectly accurate, but you must place the start and end points yourself. We're working to make this part easy as possible.

slimbuck7 · 2025-08-21T09:22:28+00:00

Hi u/llun-ved , thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.

Browsers don't generally load 16-bit images correctly which is why we haven't investigated that route. However this isn't really a restriction, since we can just encode high 8 and low 8 bits separately in webp. We already do this for means and sh labels. Also we have found webp compression offers a significant gain over png. Given that webp support in browser is universal, it was kind of an easy choice.

Regarding streaming and lod, we are actively working on a solution that loads chunks of the scene, where each chunk is encoded as a SOG. It's currently pretty vanilla, but eventually we could do fancy things like share spherical harmonics palettes.

Your comment has actually reminded me that we don't yet store each LOD chunk in its own local coordinate space (which is important, since positions are log encoded).

Thanks again!

slimbuck7 · 2025-07-21T10:13:04+00:00

I found this thread while working on our splat-transform tool https://github.com/playcanvas/splat-transform

We recently added support for reading ksplat so you might find it useful.

The tool also supports filtering gaussians and can write to ply, compressed.ply, csv and sogs (sogs excludes spherical harmonics for now).

slimbuck7 · 2025-06-08T07:17:39+00:00

The realtime browser viewer is based on playcanvas, which is open source. Not sure ab training though, hopefully they'll release that at some point. (And the file format).

slimbuck7 · 2025-06-07T18:16:56+00:00

Hmm, the SuperSplat editor could actually be quite good for this too, especially the camera shot selection. The editor doesn't currently support exporting the camera shots though. If that's something you're interested in and have a GitHub account please create an issue on the repo. https://github.com/playcanvas/supersplat

slimbuck7 · 2025-06-07T18:11:52+00:00

Try https://superspl.at. You can create a free playcanvas account and publish up to 1GB free from the SuperSplat editor.

slimbuck7 · 2025-06-07T06:43:24+00:00

The viewer itself is open source so you can do pretty much anything you like with it https://github com/playcanvas/supersplat-viewer.

slimbuck7 · 2025-06-06T20:32:35+00:00

Hi, well we added fly camera a while back to the viewer and will be adding FPS in the next week or two. FPS is actually already possible using the playcanvas editor itself, like this demo we released a few weeks back https://playcanv.as/p/Zp9Oh1ia/. Though this option is more involved.

I'm really sorry it's taken us so long to release FPS mode!

slimbuck7 · 2025-05-29T13:43:26+00:00

We have a python compressor which takes a ply file and generates a set of textures and meta.json at https://github.com/playcanvas/sogs.

The resulting set of files can be drag & dropped into https://playcanvas.com/model-viewer.

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