Blender 5.3 adds built-in support for importing and rendering 3D Gaussian splats, eliminating external add-ons and opening photogrammetry capture as a native workflow. The feature works across Cycles, EEVEE and Workbench, but carries current limitations around export, transforms and color space handling.
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Chaos has acquired Vyssuals, a real-time BIM data-visualization platform for Revit and IFC models. The move extends Enscape beyond rendering into live dashboards tracking quantities, costs and design quality.
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Epic is removing EULA restrictions on AI training from Unreal Engine and MetaHuman outputs, but individual developers can still opt out. The move raises questions about consistency as Epic simultaneously issues DMCA takedowns against AI-generated game clones.
Blender 5.3 adds built-in support for importing and rendering 3D Gaussian splats, eliminating external add-ons and opening photogrammetry capture as a native workflow. The feature works across Cycles, EEVEE and Workbench, but carries current limitations around export, transforms and color space handling.
Hi Andi,
Thanks for the great tutorial. Can you just explain how do you create those lines around the windows so quick?? What command did you use.
Thanks
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