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ovenchips

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    One other little easter egg you may not have noticed. There's an American flag gently fluttering in the breeze on top of a nearby building. We were discussing whether to adds some …

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    Yes, the cars are separated out and procedurally animated. They're splats, like the rest of the scene. Easily done in PlayCanvas - simple but effective!

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    Yes. They're Gaussian splats like the rest of the scene. PlayCanvas has a global sort so they render correctly regardless of camera angle.

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    For anybody interested, SuperSplat (and PlayCanvas) is open sourced on GitHub: https://github.com/playcanvas

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    I completely agree with you. I'm constantly bowled over by the creativity of the SuperSplat/PlayCanvas communities.

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    I built PlayCanvas in 2011 to power video games. Here we are in 2026 and it's powering strawberries.

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    The SOGS compression technique works well. You can get 1M Gaussians with full spherical harmonics in about 14MB. There's a good article about it on the PlayCanvas blog: https://blo…

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    When you say that PlayCanvas is commercial, that's a little misleading. The PlayCanvas Engine (analogous to Three.js and Babylon.js) is free and open source (MIT). The PlayCanvas E…

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    This application was built on PlayCanvas Web Components: https://github.com/playcanvas/web-components/ It's very similar to PlayCanvas React, but with a fully Web Components-based …

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    I can't find the easter egg. Clues appreciated. :)

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    We deployed a fix for Firefox today. Can you try again and let me know how it goes?