This is a Blender add-on that allows you to render point clouds with Gaussian splatting technique, which creates smooth and realistic images. It can also be used to remove noise and outliers from point cloud data.
This add-on was developed mostly as an experimentation, it is slow on large scenes, and not fully accurate. It can be used as a tool to clean floaters in Gaussian Splatting captures.
In order to be faster in non-pointcloud mode, it would be needed to implement gaussians as camera-facing quads, as some implementations for other engines have done.
- Downlaod the repo
- unzip
- zip blender addon
- Edit<Preferences<Install
- choose zip file
- toggle addon
- have the sidebar enabled (shortcut n)
- now you can choose 3d gaussian splatting in the sidebar
- import gaussian splatting with a ply file
- go to this commit message and do the steps like above https://github.com/ReshotAI/gaussian-splatting-blender-addon/tree/41ca08a4ff593bd68b8d06bc56c9c00739bbaac1
This is an older version!!
This add-on is compatible with Blender 4.0 and above. It is not backwards compatible with older versions of Blender, due to some changes in the Blender API.