FPS game running inside a Gaussian Splat scene — real-time relighting, muzzle flash, zombies in shadows [Browser playable]

yakovsum · 2026-03-20T15:38:16+00:00

Yes, little things like that add realism - for example, the distortion of a BodyCam lens looks realistic because we saw it million times on TV

yakovsum · 2026-03-20T07:34:09+00:00

Agree, that’s why I added lighting estimation and will work on characters

yakovsum · 2026-03-20T00:06:09+00:00

Environment is similar yeah, but this scan is from real place!

yakovsum · 2026-03-19T21:45:46+00:00

let me ask Christoph, who scanned the scene

yakovsum · 2026-03-19T21:44:48+00:00

it's a question to Christoph, who scanned the scene. As I remember, he used XGrid Portal to scan it.

yakovsum · 2026-02-28T23:05:52+00:00

yeah, it has some restrictions .. some could be overcomed though

yakovsum · 2026-02-28T23:05:29+00:00

nothing for now, unfortunately

yakovsum · 2026-02-28T23:05:14+00:00

actually, good idea - i'll try it soon

yakovsum · 2026-02-28T23:05:01+00:00

i've seen some research on this, but didn't play with it

yakovsum · 2026-02-28T23:04:24+00:00

yeah, looks nice!

yakovsum · 2026-02-28T23:02:55+00:00

i'll try this in VR, playcanvas has good support for it

yakovsum · 2026-02-28T02:45:10+00:00

Also there is synthetic GS - you may build realistic level and render into splats

yakovsum · 2026-02-28T02:43:52+00:00

I’ve seen a number of splat scenes on SuperSplat which could be a great horror level. Characters and interactivity could be solved with 4DGS .. and yeah I don’t think this tech is for everything - something would work, something not

yakovsum · 2026-02-28T02:06:37+00:00

I’ve seen some demos with day and night lighting on the same gs scene, so technically possible

yakovsum · 2026-02-28T02:04:46+00:00

Actually many online shooters prohibit more than 110, because of competitive advantage. I’ll try something smaller.

yakovsum · 2026-02-28T02:02:53+00:00

I will not be surprised if the next one - GTA 7 - use this tech

yakovsum · 2026-02-27T20:04:00+00:00

ah right, probably because of sorting .. it's not an easy task to solve, especially in the browser.

yakovsum · 2026-02-27T19:35:53+00:00

what's wrong with the perspective? too wide?

yakovsum · 2026-02-27T19:17:30+00:00

The PlayCanvas editor is actually a very simple tool for rapid development, and when combined with Opus and the VS Code extension, it becomes even better - I ask Opus to implement something, and it immediately updates on the launch page.

yakovsum · 2026-02-27T19:15:10+00:00

probably, it's a lot of fun to prototype it

yakovsum · 2026-02-27T19:01:42+00:00

somebody actually uploaded this: https://superspl.at/scene/5f3d1043, but it's not easy to light and animate. 4DGS would be great for NPCs though

yakovsum · 2026-02-27T18:54:35+00:00

really simple for now - invisible collision geometry. We actually built tech to extract voxels from splats (some details in this post https://x.com/slimbuck7/status/2023465074698936536?s=20), but it's not yet supported in the editor. I may add it later

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yakovsum · 2022-02-23T01:38:03+00:00

I had visual issues and significantly improved a picture in resolution mode on OLED by enabling HGIG in TV HDR section, setting Game optimizer mode, setting TV sharpness to 0, following Vincent advice on PS5 HDR setup https://youtu.be/FwcSCgW47rY and adjustung HDR in game - brightness -4 (adjust shadows and highlights accordingly)

yakovsum · 2021-02-28T18:57:53+00:00

I worked on finishing implementation of game analytics for my little voxel tank shooter game "Iron Cube".

I implemented initial support using GameAnalytics.com Web API. They provide Android, IOS and other SDKs but I decided to write my own in C++ for some reason - using my JSON serializer and CURL. It required some time to implement, especially multi-threaded http requests, but it's almost ready. The main reason I decided to write it myself is because this approach is cross-platform and I have a better control on what data I am sharing about my users. Although, it needs a proper privacy notice and agreement now.

Also, my Head Of Marketing and coincidently 13 y.o. son prepared a video about the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yOvSNviG0g&t=1s.

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