OOOSplat v0.4.1 improves error handling and preview stability

OOOSplat v0.4.1 is out — an update to the local 3D Gaussian Splatting generator focused on stability and failure handling. The release on GitHub describes improved hints when COLMAP reconstruction fails, separate diagnostics for Brush errors, UI recovery after preview crashes, and fixes in task progress display. A result card has also been added with the Gaussian count, PLY size and total generation time, and when registration falls below 80% a quality warning is shown.

What it means

The update concerns OOOSplat — an open source tool under the Apache-2.0 license that turns video or photo sets into 3D Gaussian Splatting locally, without uploading to the cloud. According to the fact sheet, the tool runs on Apple Silicon and also has alpha versions for Windows and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x86_64; the whole process uses the machine's CPU and GPU, and export is done to PLY. The v0.4.1 changes do not affect the basic hardware requirements or the output format — they target failure behavior and the convenience of working with an already installed application. For users who have run into a frozen preview after long sessions or tasks silently crashing at the COLMAP stage, this update adds clear explanations of the causes and the ability to resume from a checkpoint. The developer notes compatibility with existing projects, final.ply and recovery points — no migration is required. The update closes some of the scenarios where local generation was interrupted without clear diagnostics, and makes the UI behavior more predictable when canceling tasks and working with large PLY files.