Moshpit360 is a free, open source plugin for LichtFeld Studio that takes 360° video and produces a trained 3D Gaussian Splatting scene without requiring the user to touch stitching software, COLMAP, or any training configuration. It is being developed by LichtFeld Studio community member Moshpit, whose prior work on UnrealTwin, a synthetic data pipeline for Unreal Engine 5, informs the architectural choices throughout.
The plugin accepts a wide range of inputs ranging from already stitched equirectangular 360° video, raw INSV files directly from Insta360 cameras, standard flat video, a folder of still images, and exports from mobile capture tools. It also reopens previously started projects, picking up exactly where processing stopped.
For Insta360 users, the plugin handles fisheye stitching automatically, detects the camera model, and applies the correct lens parameters without manual configuration. GPU accelerated stitching is used when available, and the stitched output is cached so the step never needs to be repeated. Frame extraction applies intelligent sampling to avoid feeding duplicate frames into reconstruction.
The point cloud stage uses GLOMAP as its primary alignment engine, a global structure from motion approach that is significantly faster than COLMAP‘s traditional incremental pipeline and now part of COLMAP 4.0 itself. If GLOMAP stalls, the plugin retries with more conservative settings before falling back to standard COLMAP.
Training hands off to LichtFeld Studio directly, with five presets tuned to different capture scenario. Before training begins, the plugin checks capture density and warns the user if the dataset is too sparse for a quality result.
The entire pipeline can be paused or resumed at any point, including mid-training. State is saved as a single small project file, and the plugin tracks which stages are already complete to avoid redundant processing on resume.
Moshpit360 has not yet been released. It is described as being in the final stages of development and will be distributed as a tarball that drops into the LichtFeld plugins folder.
LichtFeld Studio, created by Janusch Patas (MrNeRF) and sponsored by Core11 GmbH through the end of 2026, has grown from a straightforward 3DGS trainer into a broader workstation with embedded Python, a plugin marketplace, MCP-based automation, and a full scene editing suite.
No release date or repository link has been shared yet. When Moshpit360 ships, it will be available free inside LichtFeld Studio’s plugin ecosystem.
