Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame
Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame launched on April 23, 2026 with 236 votes, #112 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
This software converts Gaussian Splat 3D models into playable video game environments using the PlayCanvas platform. It is designed for developers and creators who want to transform 3D scene captures into interactive games. The tool bridges the gap between 3D scanning technology and game development, allowing users to take photogrammetry data and repurpose it as game assets without extensive manual rebuilding.
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From the sources
Gaussian Splatting gives you photorealistic environments for free. The catch: a splat is just a cloud of oriented blobs - no triangles, no colliders, no navmesh, no lights. Drop a character in and they'll float through walls looking like they belong in a different universe. The scene is a gorgeous indoor scan of a real abandoned place by Christoph Schindelar . Christoph is one of the best artists working with Gaussian Splats out there, so when he proposed to scan a real place for me, I jumped at the opportunity. On top of that splat I bolted a physics collider, a grid of baked lighting probes, a Recast navmesh, eight personality-driven NPCs and a classic FPS loop. Everything runs in a…from blog.playcanvas.com
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Hello HN! I’m excited to share this open-source community mashup showing the power and possibility of combining 3D Gaussian splat scans with traditional mesh-based 3D tiles maps in the browser. As you've probably seen on HN a bunch lately, Gaussian splats are a new method to allow custom 3D scans of scenes and objects [1] and Google Maps 3D Tiles API are the same 3D buildings and street views your familiar with in Google Earth or Google Maps, and recently they’ve been made available for inclusion in web apps. Combining splats + 3d map mixes highly detailed real-world custom micro-scans with…
Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js2025 · sparkjs.dev · ▲377I'm the co-creator and maintainer of https://aframe.io/ and long time Web 3D graphics dev. Super excited about new techniques to author / render / represent 3D. Spark is a an open source library to easily integrate Gaussian splats in your THREE.js scene I worked with some friends and I hope you find useful. Looking forward to hearing what features / rendering techniques you would love to see next.
- RTReal-Time Gaussian Splatting2025 · ▲144
LiveSplat is a system for turning RGBD camera streams into Gaussian splat scenes in real-time. The system works by passing all the RGBD frames into a feed forward neural net that outputs the current scene as Gaussian splats. These splats are then rendered in real-time. I've put together a demo video at the link above.
SplatGallery – A Community-Driven Gallery for Gaussian Splats2024 · splatgallery.com · ▲36I just launched SplatGallery, a platform where you can share and discover the best 3D models created with Gaussian Splatting. It's a super early stage and new models are coming it fairly often. Would love to get feedback from the HN community on how to improve it!
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