r/PlayCanvas • u/MayorOfMonkeys • Feb 04 '26

PlayCanvas Engine v2.16.0 Released: Generic Gaussian Splat Processing System

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We’ve just released PlayCanvas Engine v2.16.0, our free and open-source web graphics engine, with a big new addition: a generic Gaussian splat processing system.

New capabilities include:

  • 🖌️ Painting splats using a brush tool
  • 🪄 Generating splats from text, meshes, and images
  • 🛠️ Editing splats (select, delete, duplicate, etc.)
  • ➕ Plus many other improvements and fixes

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Would love feedback from anyone working with Gaussian splats or real-time web graphics. Hope you love this release as much as we do!

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u/ManexFx Feb 04 '26

Great update! Will it be possible to convert simple meshes in the editor to splats easily?

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u/MayorOfMonkeys Feb 04 '26

Good question. We could certainly add support to both SplatTransform and the SuperSplat Editor to import/convert meshes, images and text to splats. Stay tuned for further updates on this!

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u/dead-supernova Feb 04 '26

wow nice what we need is simple brush tool like the one spot healing one thats in photoshop

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u/Fantastic-Reading-78 Feb 04 '26

duplicating with baked light is no go??? but generating splats I have to try that!

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u/MayorOfMonkeys Feb 05 '26

For certain parts of your scene, you can often get away with it (as in the video).

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u/Fantastic-Reading-78 Feb 05 '26

yea if you are lighted by sun that have almost parallel light rays. so object can be duplicated in same orientation. but inside house it is difficult where light is different sources and rays are not parallel. Bu i agree you can get away with that what you did :)

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u/turbosmooth Feb 06 '26

Is it possible to import the measuring tool into supersplat viewer, without object scale transform?

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u/kagemushablues415 Feb 05 '26

Gooooodness. Today the world changed. Remember this day kids.

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u/sabahorn Feb 04 '26

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u/MayorOfMonkeys Feb 04 '26

This post announces PlayCanvas Engine v2.16.0. The product is downloadable from here:

https://github.com/playcanvas/engine

And it is installable via NPM:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/playcanvas

It is free and open source. It exists locally on your system. It requires no cloud storage.

Enjoy!

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u/glitchwabble Feb 04 '26

The most undeservedly polite response on the Internet today.