The Pixel Lab has released Davy Jones's Locker, a pack of more than 100 pirate themed Gaussian splat assets delivered as .ply files.
Davy Jones's Locker is the studio's third splat pack. It follows the 25 asset Gaussian Splat Clouds Pack and the 30 asset Gemstones pack released in June, which needs about 7 GB of drive space. The new pack needs 21 GB.
The asset list covers treasure chests, gold bars, coins and rings, crowns, chalices, compasses and sextants, skulls, full skeletons and skeletal hands, flintlock pistols, swords and daggers, cannons, anchors, bells, lanterns, pirate hats, ship debris, and a set of kraken and abyssal creature pieces. The Pixel Lab made the pack with Spenser Dickerson.
Cinema 4D and OctaneRender users also get a preset .c4d scene with an underwater caustics shader written in OSL and a textured ocean floor model. The scene is set up so the splats can be dragged in and arranged on the seabed.
The Pixel Lab says the assets work out of the box in OctaneRender and Blender, and in most other applications through third party plugins, including After Effects with a Gaussian splat plugin. The stated requirement is any application that reads .ply. The product page does not list splat counts, per asset file sizes, or how the objects were captured or generated.
The Pixel Lab pitches the pack as set dressing, adding dense prop detail to a scene without the render time cost of equivalent polygonal models. It carries a 60 day money back guarantee.
Davy Jones's Locker is available now for $69.
