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Importing Kiri Engine Gaussian Splats into Blender

Bart ·

Kiri Engine is a 3D scanning app for iOS/Android. It can export captured data as ‘Guassian Splats‘, but Blender is not able to manipulate or render those. The Kiri team just released a free add-on that’ll import this data and project it onto planes. With a little bit of work this can give pretty good results, as Baec shows in this video.

Kiri is free to use, and will export 3 models per week on their free plan.

This Blender addon streamlines the process of working with 3DGS (3D Gaussian Splatting) scans in your 3D projects. Here’s what it offers:

  1. Automatic Conversion: Seamlessly transforms.ply scan files into Blender-compatible objects.
  2. Eevee Compatibility: Converted objects are fully renderable with Blender’s Eevee engine.
  3. Full Object Control: Manipulate your imported scans just like any other Blender object:
    • Move, scale, and rotate with precision
    • Easily duplicate to populate your scenes
  4. Advanced Lighting Integration:
    • Light-Reactive Objects: Imported scans fully interact with scene lighting for realistic rendering
    • Option for shadeless display to preserve the raw scan appearance
    • Seamlessly blend scans with other 3D elements in your scene
  5. Color Enhancement: Fine-tune the visual appeal of your scans with built-in color editing tools. By bridging the gap between 3DGS technology and Blender’s powerful ecosystem, this addon empowers artists and designers to seamlessly incorporate realistic, light-responsive scans into their 3D workflows.

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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