{"id":236889,"date":"2026-05-11T02:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/gaussian-splatting-is-my-new-favourite-thing-so-i-hassled-an-ex-epic-artist-to-tell-me-everything-he-knows-about-the-low-cost-photo-real-rendering-technique"},"modified":"2026-05-11T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:03:30","slug":"gaussian-splatting-is-my-new-favourite-thing-so-i-hassled-an-ex-epic-artist-to-tell-me-everything-he-knows-about-the-low-cost-photo-real-rendering-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/gaussian-splatting-is-my-new-favourite-thing-so-i-hassled-an-ex-epic-artist-to-tell-me-everything-he-knows-about-the-low-cost-photo-real-rendering-technique","title":{"rendered":"Gaussian Splatting is my new favourite thing, so I hassled an ex-Epic artist to tell me everything he knows about the low-cost \u2018photo-real\u2019 rendering technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H4LW2fMtSN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Open source engine <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/playcanvas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/playcanvas.com\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">PlayCanvas<\/a> is what Iakov Sumygin used to build that browser-based FPS. Resources like this strengthen Schindelar\u2019s case, particularly as the engine just introduced <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/playcanvas_gaussiansplatting-3dgs-webgl-activity-7457415428106199040-HmbO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAtNzp0B6XrKLRh9UR61BCXqn9sOukS6f6E\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/playcanvas_gaussiansplatting-3dgs-webgl-activity-7457415428106199040-HmbO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAtNzp0B6XrKLRh9UR61BCXqn9sOukS6f6E\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">SplatTransform 2.0<\/a>, a tool that offers \u201cfully automated, lightning-fast generation of high-quality collision for your splats.\u201d Without a collision mesh, players could otherwise phase through the environment, so this is yet another option that streamlines the pipeline between scan and interactive assets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGaussian Splatting training\u2014meaning the reconstruction process after capture\u2014can reproduce real-world appearance in ways that traditional scanning methods struggle with or cannot handle properly,\u201d He tells me, \u201cWe can now capture and represent things like hair, semi-transparency, translucency, subsurface scattering, fine foliage, and other complex visual phenomena that are extremely difficult to reconstruct as clean geometry with traditional texture workflows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis direct connection between captured real-world data and a production-ready, real-time representation is what makes Gaussian Splatting so interesting,\u201d Schindelar says, \u201cIt is not just a rendering trick\u2014it changes the entire capture-to-delivery pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open source engine PlayCanvas is what Iakov Sumygin used to build that browser-based FPS. 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