Settings reference

Every setting, in the order the panels show them. Count, Samples, Image Size, Max Splats (k) and Steps are heading checkboxes: unticked, the field shows the quality’s own number, greyed; ticking the box or editing the number makes it yours; unticking returns to the quality’s. Lengths are shown in Blender’s default metric units. A run takes SH Degree, Opaque Splats, Focus Detail, Preview Every and Sky Dome when Create Splat is clicked: changing them while it renders applies to the next run. Settings marked Advanced show with Advanced Settings on (Setup panel, or SplatPilot’s preferences), and also with it off once they are set differently from their default.

Create Splat panel

First in the tab. It holds the estimate, the status line and the buttons; see The Create Splat panel.

Setting	Default	What it does
Check Before Rendering (n)		Under the estimate, when something is worth a decision before the views render: opens the Before Rendering popover (see below). n counts mirror-like materials, Cycles on the CPU, and the render settings that can be kept or are noted.

Setup panel

After Create Splat, open by default.

Setting	Default	What it does
Subject	Selection	What becomes the splat. Selection: the selected objects. Collection: a collection’s objects in this scene. Scene: everything that renders.
Collection	None	With Subject: Collection, the collection to capture, including collections inside it.
Advanced Settings	Off	Show the settings marked Advanced in the Views, Rendering and Training panels; one set differently from its default shows either way. The same switch as in SplatPilot’s preferences, and like them yours rather than the file’s.
Kind	Object	Two tabs: how automatic views are planned. Object: views around the subject, looking in: a product, a model, a building from outside. Environment: views inside the space, placed by its surfaces: a room, a house, a street (usually with Subject: Scene); everything at the same detail, some at eye height looking around.
Quality	Standard	Draft: 100 views at 800 px, 32 samples, 300 k splats, 7,000 steps. Standard: 240 views at 1600 px, 64 samples, 1 M splats, 30,000 steps. High: 400 views at 2048 px (objects 1600 px), 256 samples, 2.5 M splats, 30,000 steps. The menu also lists your presets. The button shows how many settings changed since the quality or preset was applied or saved, such as “Draft (2 changed)”.

Views panel

Setting	Default	What it does
Source	Automatic	Where the views come from. Automatic: views planned for the subject (shells around an object, views placed by an environment’s surfaces). Rigs: the views of the used rigs. Cameras: the perspective cameras of a collection.
Count	Unticked: the quality’s	With Automatic: how many views to render. Unticked, an object gets the quality’s count (100, 240 or 400); an environment with geometry views gets as many as coverage needs, between half and twice that count, and the field reads “Auto: 50–200”, or “Auto: 148” once its views are picked. More views give a sharper splat from more places, about +2 dB per doubling, and take longer.
Eye Height Environments	1.6 m	With Automatic: how high the views that stand on floors, the ground and roofs stand above them, ±25% at random (1.2 to 2 m at 1.6 m).
Geometry Views Environments Advanced	On	Also render many quick views (1 sample, small, not denoised) that teach the splat where surfaces are; automatic views are picked among them. Shown for Automatic, Rigs and Cameras.
Focus Weight Environments Advanced	4	Shown once the scene has focus points. How much more the surfaces near focus points count when an environment’s views are picked: they get seen from more places. 1: no effect. Range 1 to 50.
Cameras	None	With Source: Cameras, the collection whose perspective cameras are rendered.
Training views colour and eye	Amber, shown	The colour placed training views are drawn in, and whether they are drawn.
Test views colour and eye	Red, shown	The same for placed test views.
Geometry views colour and eye	Grey, hidden	The same for placed geometry views.
View	1	The view that Look Through shows, counted from 1 (“View 12 of 95”): one of the placed automatic views, or of the active rig.
Bake Cameras		With Automatic: makes a camera of every placed view in a new collection and switches Source to Cameras with it.
Use Environments	The pick’s own count	After an environment’s views are picked: how many of them to use, best first (“Use 148 of 190”). The Coverage panel, the views shown and the views rendered follow.
Reset to Auto (N) Environments		Shown while another count than the pick’s own is in use: returns to the count coverage chose. With a count of your own, it reads Reset to N Views.

Before Rendering and Scene Render Settings

Popovers: Before Rendering opens from Create Splat’s Check Before Rendering (n); Render Settings for the Views opens from the Rendering panel’s Scene Render Settings and lists the render settings only.

Setting	Default	What it does
Set Min Roughness to 0.3		Before Rendering, Materials box, while the subject has mirror-like materials and Min Roughness is 0: sets Rendering > Min Roughness to 0.3. The views render anew.
Keep (Material Override, World Override, Freestyle, Noise Threshold, Denoising Prefilter)	Off	Render the views with this scene setting instead of leaving it out.

Coverage panel

After the Views panel, closed by default. It shows what the coverage is of, the verdict and the Surfaces and Directions bars, then the map’s settings. An environment’s automatic views with Geometry Views have a coverage once the Views button has picked them (until then: “Not placed”); other views once Check Coverage has measured it. An outdated coverage shows “Outdated”, its figures greyed out, without the map’s settings; for a check, with Check Again in red. See Views.

Setting	Default	What it does
Check Coverage		With rigs (all used rigs together), cameras, an object’s automatic views or an environment’s without Geometry Views, until there is a result: measures how well the views see the subject (quick geometry renders) and switches the coverage map on. Then the verdict has a refresh button at the end of its line that checks again. Once the views or the subject changed, Check Again shows in red.
Map	Off; on after Check Coverage	A toggle button with an eye: draws the coverage map in the viewport. Shown when there is a map; while it is off, the settings below are greyed out.
Problems Only	Off	Show only weak and unseen spots.
X-Ray	Off	Show the map through surfaces; hidden spots faint.
Grade / Directions / Detail	Grade	What the spots’ colours show: the grade (Good, Fair, Weak, Unseen), how many of the directions a spot can be seen from the views see it from, or how sharply the closest view sees it.
Problem Area ◀ ▶	1	Steps through the problem areas, largest first, and frames each in the viewport. The current one is circled in white and its spots rimmed in white.
Frame Problem Area (icon)		Turns the viewport to the current problem area, from where a view that sees it would stand. Changes only the viewport.
Select Redundant Cameras (icon)		With cameras: selects the redundant cameras (nothing is deleted).
Redundant eye	Shown	Draws the redundant views in pink, crossed.

Rig settings

Shown for the active rig when Source is set to Rigs, in groups: shape, size, aim, lens.

Setting	Default	What it does
Use	On	In the rig list: include this rig’s views when creating a splat.
Shape	Sphere	Sphere: views evenly spread over a sphere. Dome: over the upper half of a sphere. Cylinder: stacked rings of views. Grid: a flat grid of views above the anchor. Ring: one ring of views. Mesh: a view at every vertex of a mesh, along its normal.
Direction	Inward	Inward: views look at the target (or the rig’s centre). Outward: views look away from it. Both: two views per point, one inward and one outward.
Count	42	Sphere and Dome: how many views. Range 1 to 10,000.
Segments	12	Cylinder and Ring: views per ring. Range 3 to 1,024.
Rings	6	Cylinder: how many rings. Range 1 to 256.
Radius	5 m	Sphere, Dome, Cylinder and Ring: the views’ distance from the anchor. Add Rig sets it from the selected object.
Height	4 m	Cylinder: its height, centred on the anchor.
Level (Ring)	1 m	Ring: how high it sits above its anchor.
Level (Grid)	4 m	Grid: how high it sits above its anchor.
Size	6 m	Grid: the width and depth of the square grid.
Columns, Rows	5, 5	Grid: views along its X and Y axes. Range 1 to 1,024.
Mesh	None	Mesh: the mesh whose vertices get a view each.
Anchor	Made with the rig	Places the rig: an Empty, typically parented to the target. Not used by Mesh rigs.
Target	The selected object, if any	What inward views aim at. + adds a new Point, Segment or Box target fitted around the subject; such a target is removed again when the Target is cleared or replaced.
Focal Length	50 mm	The lens of the rig’s views.
Sensor	36 mm	The sensor width of the rig’s views. Range 1 to 100 mm.
Colour	Orange	The rig’s colour in the viewport.
Bake Cameras (rig)		Makes a camera of every view of the active rig, in a collection inside the rig (replaces an earlier bake).

Target settings

Shown below the rig’s Target.

Setting	Default	What it does
Aim At	Point	Point: views aim at the object’s origin. Segment: at the closest point of a line between two points. Box: at the closest point of a box around the origin.
Segment Start	0, 0, 0	One end of the segment, in the object’s local space.
Segment End	0, 0, 1	The other end of the segment, in the object’s local space.
Half Size	1, 1, 1	Half the box’s size along the object’s local axes.

A target added with + gets values fitted around the subject instead.

Rendering panel

Setting	Default	What it does
Engine	The scene’s	The scene’s render engine (Render Properties > Render Engine), which the views render with: setting it here sets the scene’s, and the other way round. Cycles: path traced, the most faithful views. EEVEE: rasterised, much faster views; screen-space effects may differ between views. With Workbench or another engine, the views render with Cycles and a line reads “Scene: Workbench”. Presets do not store it. See Engine.
Samples	Unticked: the quality’s	Render samples per view. The quality’s: 32, 64 or 256.
Noise Threshold Advanced	Unticked: the scene’s	Cycles. Adaptive sampling stops at pixels whose noise is below it: lower renders cleaner and slower. Unticked, the views take the scene’s (0.01 where the scene’s is coarser than 0.05, unless kept), and the field reads “Scene: Off” where the scene renders every pixel to the full samples; ticked, the views render with adaptive sampling at this threshold.
Denoise Advanced	On	Cycles. Denoise the views; off, they keep their noise (for very many samples).
Image Size	Unticked: the quality’s	The longer side of the views in pixels, at the scene’s aspect ratio. The quality’s: 800, 1600 or 2048 (1600 for objects at High).
Subject Only	On	Shown for Kind: Object with Subject: Selection or Collection. The views show only the subject; other objects still light, shade and reflect in it (their camera visibility is off in the render copy). Off in scenes where SplatPilot was used before alpha.39. See Subject Only.
Min Roughness	0	Render the views with every glossy surface at least this rough; the materials in your file are not changed. 0.3 gives a clean satin look; 0 renders the materials as they are. Glass keeps its roughness.
Sky Dome Environments	Off	On: the world is baked into a panorama and, after training, into a sphere of splats far around the scene, its own object beside the result. Off: the splat has no sky (its views render with a transparent background).
Test Views Advanced	5%	The share of the rendered views the splat is scored on but not trained on; they add no detail. 0% renders none and gives no score. Range 0 to 50%.
Scene Render Settings		Opens the scene’s render settings the views leave out or keep, with Keep (see above).

Training panel

Setting	Default	What it does
Steps	Unticked: the quality’s	Training steps. The quality’s: 7,000, 30,000 or 30,000. More steps refine detail and take longer.
Max Splats (k)	Unticked: the quality’s	The splat budget in thousands: 1500 is 1.5 million splats. The quality’s: 300, 1,000 or 2,500.
SH Degree Advanced	Auto	How much a splat’s colour may change with the viewing direction. Auto: 3, for objects and environments alike. 0: one colour per splat, the smallest file. 1: gentle changes. 2: stronger changes. 3: the most, sheen and soft reflections.
Opaque Splats Advanced	Auto	Whether training pushes every splat to fully opaque or gone. Auto: on for environments, off for objects. On: surfaces render solid in EEVEE; see-through materials (glass, fog) cannot stay see-through. Off: splats keep the opacity training gives them.
Focus Detail Advanced	3	Available when the scene has focus points. How much harder training works around them: their pixels count this many times and more splats gather there. 1: off. Range 1 to 20.
Preview Every Advanced	15 s	How often the splat so far is shown in the viewport while it trains. 0: only at the end.

Storage panel

The Storage panel has no settings of its own: it shows the storage folder (Open Storage Folder), Add to Project Settings inside a Blender Project, the disk use (Views, Runs, Splats) and Clean Up…. See Storage and Blender Projects.

Dialogs and actions

Action	Setting	Default	What it does
Improve… (Results)	Add Views	On, the quality’s view count	Render this many more views of the subject (in an environment, where the splat’s views are thin) and train on all of them. Only with Views > Source: Automatic. Range 1 to 10,000.
Improve…	More Steps	The quality’s steps	Training steps on top of the splat’s. Range 1 to 1,000,000.
Improve…	Keep the Current Splat	Off	Train into a new splat and keep this one to compare.
Export… (Results), File > Export > Gaussian Splat (.ply/.sog)	Format	PLY	PLY: every value as trained, read by most splat tools. SOG: PlayCanvas’s compressed format for the web, about 15 times smaller. The file’s extension follows it.
Delete Splat… (Results, −)	Rendered Views	Off	Also delete the views it was trained on, unless another splat in this file uses them.
Clean Up… (Storage)	Training Runs	On	Delete logs, previews and checkpoints of trainings whose splat is not in this file.
Clean Up…	Rendered Views	Off	Delete views no splat in this file was trained on (other files of a project may use them).
Save as Preset… (Quality menu)	Name	My Preset	The preset’s name. When a preset of that name exists, the dialog says “A preset named … exists: Save replaces it”.
Save as Preset…	Share with Project	On	Inside a Blender Project only: save the preset in the project’s SplatPilot folder for everyone who works on it.
Delete Preset (Quality menu)			Deletes a preset after asking: “Delete …?”, or for a project preset “Delete … for everyone on the project?”.

Splat Training Dataset export

File > Export > Splat Training Dataset (COLMAP/nerfstudio), and Export Training Dataset… in a splat’s menu in Results; see Exporting a training dataset.

Setting	Default	What it does
Format	GraphDECO 3DGS	Postshot, GraphDECO 3DGS, OpenSplat, LichtFeld Studio or nerfstudio.
Include Test Views	Off	Also export the test views, held out of training.
Remove Alpha	Off	Composite the images onto a colour, for tools that ignore alpha.
Background	Black	The colour behind the subject in the exported images; applies only with Remove Alpha.
Points	100,000	Points in the point cloud that other trainers start from. Range 1,000 to 10,000,000.

Preferences

Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > SplatPilot; see Preferences.

Setting	Default	What it does
VRAM Limit (GB)	0	Warn when a training would need more GPU memory than this. 0: never. Test GPU sets it on NVIDIA cards.
Advanced Settings	Off	The same switch as in the Setup panel.