Blender 5.3
3D Gaussian splats, now native to Blender
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Blender 5.3 adds native 3D Gaussian Splats across Geometry Nodes, Workbench, EEVEE, and Cycles, alongside DLSS 4.5 viewport denoising, optional Project setups, Compositor scene effects, Material Lighting nodes, and ripple video editing.
PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 109 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: 3d modeling and rendering software · 145 launches, 22 in the last 7 days ▼ -8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Design Tools
- 3D Modeling
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Could you build this?
No Blender is a mature native C/C++ 3D application whose GPU renderers, Gaussian splat support, and Geometry Nodes engine represent years of specialized graphics engineering.
What it would actually take: Building an equivalent requires a native C/C++ codebase with OpenGL/Vulkan/CUDA rendering, a path tracer (Cycles-style), a real-time raster engine (EEVEE-style), a node-based geometry kernel, and Python plugin integration. This needs a team of graphics and systems engineers, years of development, and extensive testing across GPUs and platforms.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 270 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 271 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 376 days after the earliest competitor.
- gaussian-splat-to-blender-nodes · github · 2026-10-24 · 65 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- AssetKit-Blender · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Gaussian-Render-Capture · github · 2026-09-23 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Radix · hn · 2026-10-29 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Tsplat · hn · 2026-04-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry · hn · 2026-05-19 · 530 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- MCP_Image_to_3D · github · 2026-11-06 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame · hn · 2026-04-23 · 236 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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