Gaussian splats: photoreal worlds from a picture or a video
Turn a picture, several pictures or a video into a Gaussian splat — an object captured with its real light, or a whole world you can fly through in the browser. Then export it as splats, a mesh or a collider.
On paid plans, in early access — request access from the Generate Splat tab.
What you get
An object, or a whole world
An object or a single view
Captures what is in one picture — a product, a prop, a place as photographed — with its real light and fine detail. With Object selected it removes the background first, for a clean subject.
Best for: Products, props and single subjects
A whole world
Builds a space out from your input that you can look around and fly through. Zetta Splat 2.1 is made for larger spaces — big outdoor and indoor areas.
Best for: Rooms, sites, streets and backdrops
| Engine | Builds | From | Time | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zetta Splat | An object or a place, as pictured | One picture | About four minutes | .splat |
| Zetta Splat 2 | A world to look around in | A picture, several pictures or a video | About five minutes | SPZ |
| Zetta Splat 2.1 | A larger world, for big spaces | A picture, several pictures or a video | About five minutes | SPZ |
Ways in
A picture, several, a video — or just words
The more of a space the input shows, the less the world has to invent. A video observes the most; one picture the least.
One picture
The quickest start. Everything out of frame is inferred — the far side of the room is invented rather than observed.
Several pictures
Pictures of the same space, each marked with the way it faces — up to eight. Directions you did not photograph can be drawn from the main picture.
A video
One slow, steady take walking through the space, up to 100 MB as MP4, MOV or WebM. The most complete world, because the most was observed.
A prompt
Describe it. Your words become a picture you check before the splat is made — and the world engines read the prompt as a description of the scene too.
How it works
Four steps to a splat
Choose Object or Environment
Object makes a clean subject on a plain background; Environment makes a place that fills a wide frame.
Pick an engine
Zetta Splat for an object or one view; Zetta Splat 2 for a world; Zetta Splat 2.1 for a large one.
Give it a picture, views or a video
Upload a picture, add the other directions of the space, attach a video — or describe it and approve the picture made from your words.
Look around, then export
Orbit an object or fly through a world in the browser. From Inspect, export splats, a mesh or a collider.
Afterwards
Look around, then take it further
Splats open in the browser: objects orbit, and worlds can be flown through — drag to orbit, right-drag to look, WASD to move. A world is not a dead end; from Inspect it exports three ways.
Splats
PLYThe splat itself, at full size or reduced to 500K, 150K or 100K splats for lighter delivery. Ready in seconds.
Mesh
GLBA surface built from the world, textured or with vertex colours. An ordinary model: retopology, texturing and the other mesh tools run on it.
Collider
GLBA simple collision mesh, so a player or a physics engine can stand on the floor and stop at the walls.
What a splat cannot do
- A splat has no surface. Retopology, texturing, segmentation and rigging do not run on it — export a mesh first.
- The lighting is baked into the colours, so a splat does not relight like a mesh with materials.
- From one picture, everything out of frame is inferred. Several pictures or a video show more of the space.
- Mirrors, glass and moving subjects confuse the reconstruction, as they confuse every reconstruction.
- Large worlds are large files. Choose the standard version when it opens, or export reduced splats for delivery.
Questions
What people ask about splats
What is a Gaussian splat?
A scene stored as millions of small, soft, coloured blobs instead of triangles. Drawn together they look photographic — fuzz, foliage and sheen included — and they render in real time, in a browser.
Can I make a Gaussian splat from a video?
Yes. With Zetta Splat 2 or 2.1 in Environment mode, attach one slow, steady take of the space, up to 100 MB as MP4, MOV or WebM.
Can I turn a splat into a mesh?
A world exports from Inspect as a mesh (GLB), textured or with vertex colours, and as a collider mesh for physics. The exported mesh is an ordinary model, so the mesh tools run on it.
What file formats do I get?
Zetta Splat delivers a .splat file; worlds are kept as SPZ. A world also exports as PLY splats, a GLB mesh and a GLB collider.
Who can use it?
Gaussian splats come with a paid plan and are in early access. Press Request access on the Generate Splat tab in the 3D Studio and the team switches it on for your account.
Start free. Keep everything you make.
Everything here is on the free plan. No card required.
- Commercial use of everything you make, on any plan
- Zetta N1, from a prompt or a single image
- Image generation, unmetered — no credits, up to 2K