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Fact sheet


Product	SplatPilot 3.0.1
Description	An extension for Blender 5.3 that turns a Blender scene into a Gaussian splat
Maker	Pilot Studio
Release	On Superhive since 10 November 2026, the day Blender 5.3 came out
Price	$19 for a personal licence, $42 for up to 5 seats
Store	superhivemarket.com/products/splatpilot
Blender	5.3 or newer
System	Windows or Linux, 64-bit (Linux: glibc 2.34 or newer). Not macOS.
Graphics card	A GPU with Vulkan support and a current driver
GPU memory	About 1 GB at Standard, 3 GB at High
Disk space	About 8 GB for an object at Standard with Cycles, 26 GB for the Classroom at High. EEVEE needs about a third.
Colour	Blender’s own colour management, with the default Linear Rec.709 working space
Output	Blender 5.3 splat objects. Export to PLY, SOG and SPZ, and training datasets for other trainers (COLMAP, nerfstudio).
Licence	GPL-3.0-or-later. The download contains the full source.
Website	splatpilot.com, with the documentation, a demo with 10 splats in 3D and the showcase
Videos	The trailer (1:08) and the walkthrough (3:38) on YouTube
Contact	mfreytag.studio@gmail.com, or the contact form in the imprint

One line, to quote as is. SplatPilot is a Blender 5.3 extension that turns your scene into a Gaussian splat without leaving Blender.

Short description

SplatPilot, an extension for Blender 5.3 by Pilot Studio, turns an object, a collection or a whole scene into a Gaussian splat. SplatPilot places the cameras, renders the images and trains the splat on your GPU, with its own engine. The result is a native Blender 5.3 splat object. SplatPilot runs on Windows and Linux.

Long description

SplatPilot, an extension for Blender 5.3 by Pilot Studio, turns an object, a collection or a whole Blender scene into a Gaussian splat. You pick the subject and a quality, set Kind to Object, Indoor or Outdoor, and click Create Splat. SplatPilot places the cameras, renders the images with Cycles or EEVEE in a second Blender and trains the splat on your GPU. You get a Blender 5.3 splat object, which you render in EEVEE and Cycles like any other object.

SplatPilot places the cameras all around an object, or by the surfaces in a room or a landscape. Before the full render, you can check the cameras’ coverage on a map. You can also use your own rigs and cameras. SplatPilot runs on Windows and Linux and trains with its own engine, which comes with the extension. With Export…, you save the splat as PLY, SOG or SPZ, and SplatPilot bakes your colour look into the file. SplatPilot is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later.

Features

Click Create Splat, and SplatPilot places the cameras, renders the images and trains the splat. SplatPilot skips the steps already done for the current settings. With Cameras, Render and Train, you run one step at a time.
SplatPilot renders the images in a second Blender, from a copy of your file, so you can keep working.
With Kind, you choose how SplatPilot places the automatic cameras. For an Object, SplatPilot places the cameras all around the subject, also from below. For Indoor and Outdoor, SplatPilot places the cameras by the surfaces and renders every surface at the same detail.
In the Cameras panel, you can use Automatic cameras, Rigs you shape yourself and Collections of your own cameras, alone or together. A rig is a sphere, dome, cylinder, ring or grid of cameras, or a camera at every vertex of a mesh.
For a room or a landscape, SplatPilot also renders small depth images from Geometry Cameras and trains on these images. The splat then has fewer holes and floaters.
Before the full render, you can check the coverage in the Cameras panel. SplatPilot grades every spot on the surfaces Good, Fair, Weak or Unseen and draws the grades as coloured dots in the viewport.
Before a run, SplatPilot estimates the cameras, image size, splats, GPU memory, disk space and time. Click Measure, and SplatPilot renders six images to time the rendering.
You pick a quality, Draft, Standard or High, and SplatPilot sets the camera count, image size, samples, splat budget and training steps. You can change each number and save your own preset, also for everyone in a Blender Project.
With Made For on Viewers, the default, SplatPilot trains a quarter of the steps the way most viewers and engines draw splats. With Made For on Blender, SplatPilot trains every step the way EEVEE and Cycles draw splats.
With Improve…, SplatPilot trains a finished splat further, with more cameras, more steps or both.
With Export…, you save the splat as PLY, SOG or SPZ, and SplatPilot bakes your colour look into the file. A SOG file is about 15 times smaller than a PLY file, an SPZ file about 14 times. Blender 5.3 imports SPZ files.
You can pause a run and resume it later. SplatPilot saves a checkpoint of the training every 5 minutes. If you cancel a run, SplatPilot discards the training’s splat and keeps the rendered images. If Blender closes during a training, you can import the splat so far when you open your file again.
With File > Export > Splat Training Dataset (COLMAP/nerfstudio), you export the rendered images for Postshot, LichtFeld Studio, GraphDECO 3DGS, OpenSplat or nerfstudio. You can render and export a dataset without a Vulkan GPU.

Measured

Blender’s Classroom scene on an RTX 4070, with Kind on Indoor, rendered with Cycles:

Quality	Splats	Cameras	Rendering	Training	Total	Score
Draft	300 k	200 at 800 × 450	79 s	40 s	about 2 min	31.7 dB
Standard	1 M	386 at 1600 × 900	11 min	8 min	about 19 min	35.5 dB
High	2.5 M	518 at 2048 × 1152	43 min	18 min	about 1 h	36.9 dB

Score: PSNR on the same 40 test images at 1600 × 900, none of them used in training. Compare scores only between runs of the same scene.

How SplatPilot differs

SplatPilot makes splats of Blender scenes and doesn’t work from photos. SplatPilot places the cameras, renders the images and starts the training with splats on the scene’s surfaces. For rooms and landscapes, SplatPilot also trains on small depth images of the scene, for fewer holes and floaters. The result is Blender 5.3’s own splat object, saved in your file and rendered in EEVEE and Cycles. The training engine was written for SplatPilot and comes inside the extension. SplatPilot downloads nothing else, and you need no account and no licence server.

Images

The store gallery, 2400 × 1200 JPG. Click a picture for the full size.

Key art and logos

Key art, the Classroom’s Cycles render and its splat, split along an orange line: 16:9 without text · 16:9 with the logo · square without text · square with the logo · header, 1456 × 672 · header, 728 × 336 · GIF, render to splat (640 × 320, 1.8 MB)

SplatPilot logo: the mark, SVG · the mark, PNG 2048 · mark and name on dark · mark and name on light

Pilot Studio logo: the arrow for dark grounds, SVG · the arrow for light grounds, SVG · arrow and name on dark · arrow and name on light

Brand colours: orange #FF8A3D, blue #2E6EED, cyan #21C2D6, ink #1B1F2A, dark ground #161A23. Fonts: Bricolage Grotesque for headings, Inter for text.

Videos

The trailer (1:08) and the walkthrough (3:38) are on YouTube. The showcase has nine scenes, each with its Cycles render, splat and turntable video. In the demo, you move around 10 splats in 3D.

Using these files

You may use the images, videos and logos in articles, videos and posts about SplatPilot, monetized ones included. You may crop, resize and cut the files as you need, and record your own footage. Please keep the logos’ shapes and colours. You need no approval from Pilot Studio.

The scenes belong to their authors, under the licences below. Credit the CC BY scenes when you show them. The Victorian Living Room is a Fab asset. You may show pictures and clips of the Victorian Living Room, but you may not share the scene or its splat.

SplatPilot is an independent extension for Blender. Blender is a registered trademark of the Blender Foundation. Please don’t use the Blender logo for SplatPilot or suggest that the Blender Foundation endorses SplatPilot.

Scene credits

Scene	Author	Licence	Shown in
Classroom	Christophe Seux	CC0	Gallery 02, 03, 04, 06, 07 and 11; key art; GIF; demo
Ship Pinnace	Poly Haven (James Ray Cock, Rico Cilliers, Nicolò Zubbini, Yann Kervran)	CC0	Gallery 05, 08 and 11; demo
The Junk Shop	Alex Treviño, original concept by Anaïs Maamar	CC BY	Gallery 08; showcase; demo
Panthera Spelaea	Joanna Kobierska, lion base by Ken Barthelmey	CC BY	Showcase; demo
Monster Under The Bed	Metin Seven, concept art by Blake Stevenson	CC BY	Showcase; demo
Animal Fur Examples (Highland Cattle)	Simon Thommes, Blender Studio	CC0	Showcase; demo
Fishy Cat	Manu Järvinen	CC0	Gallery 01; showcase; demo
Victorian Furniture - Living Room	Hellcat Studios	Fab Standard License	Showcase; demo (pictures only, no 3D splat)
Treasure Chest	Rico Cilliers, Poly Haven	CC0	Showcase; demo
Camera 01	Rajil Jose Macatangay, Poly Haven	CC0	Showcase; demo
Jacaranda Tree	Rico Cilliers, Poly Haven	CC0	Showcase; demo

A credit line for captions: Scenes: Classroom by Christophe Seux (CC0). The Junk Shop by Alex Treviño, original concept by Anaïs Maamar (CC BY). Panthera Spelaea by Joanna Kobierska, lion base by Ken Barthelmey (CC BY). Monster Under The Bed by Metin Seven, based on concept art by Blake Stevenson (CC BY). Animal Fur Examples by Simon Thommes, Blender Studio (CC0). Fishy Cat by Manu Järvinen (CC0). Victorian Furniture - Living Room by Hellcat Studios, from Fab. Ship Pinnace, Treasure Chest, Camera 01 and Jacaranda Tree from Poly Haven (CC0).

SplatPilot’s licence covers the software. The splats, images and datasets you make are outside that licence.

About Pilot Studio

Pilot Studio makes Blender add-ons. SplatPilot is the first.

Contact

mfreytag.studio@gmail.com, or the contact form in the imprint. For bug reports, see Getting help. Review copies on request.