Indie-Dev Tries - IMAGE to 3D!

[@TheRoyalSkies]

Shout-Outs to the Texture guy for "blinging up" the helmet for this video! If you guys wanna try out the site yourself you can find a link to it in the description! Had a lot of fun testing it, and can't wait to see where it goes!

[@moshmoshpitpit]

Not only is it free, you can just... run it on your own PC, so long as you have an Nvidia graphics card. Someone made a fork that is a few-command installer on Windows (but you DO need to download the CUDA tools first). Thanks for covering this!

[@Azrael_Bathory]

As far as generative AI go, I can actually get behind this one because it allows people to bring to life something that they drew and created themselves, into a 3D medium. I know that doesn't always have to be the case and isn't always going to be since any image can be used from any source, random generated ones included. But this is the kind of AI assisted workflow that indie dev need in such a cluttered industry, something to bring your creation and vision to life. My issue with total random generation feels more like the human assisting the AI.

[@Thesupperals]

AAAY!! I should have mentioned this baby earlier... but it was in the stages of not being this good as of today. I'm glad you found it.

[@crummymudd8625]

Thanks for video, and the quick demo, I probably would not have tried it on my own, and definitely could not give the knowledgeable, experienced opinion of it. This opens the tool for me, and it will save me so much time! In fact, it can do 3d better than me (no I am not an artist, just some dude that wants to make a game)

[@vi6ddarkking]

A trick I use to create 3D Clothing for characters. Is to utilize the Blender Controlnet skeleton to get the proportions of my character. Then use said skeleton and an Image AI generator to get a 2D T pose image. Then feed it to an image to 3D AI. It's not perfect (yet). But it's good for prototyping.

[@esuriddick]

Could you share a little bit more on the steps you take for this? Sounds promising to get reference images.

[@GeoAnima]

You are a legend ! This will save a lot of time ! Imagine having the option to remesh or re-topo online

[@RDD87z]

Nvidia meshtron got us covered about topology. Let's just wait to be released.

[@sayuriartsy5108]

Since your game was about space ships, I'm surprised you didn't show footage of yourself trying to plug in images of star ship designs.

[@lorddiego]

After 7 years of working on it as solo-dev, probably he just doesn't want to get near the project. I wouldn't for sure 😂

[@kenhiguchi2144]

All solo deves are gonna extra boosted.

[@AlexaCWS]

One hour of cleanap? from what I saw it was 1 seconds of cleanup - Zremesh button. So the model is still at an early stage

[@Dj-Mccullough]

The best part of this software in my opinion, is that you can run it on your local system, and not expose any data to cloud based Ai's.

[@cyonu5675]

bro is afraid of ais while using ai 😭

[@crispyghoul]

can you explain how to do that for a beginner?

[@Kullervo456]

Not sure how in depth you went into testing this tool beyond the video. Just curious if there are certain types of images that work better than others?

[@Ludicrous_Speedway]

Holy crap it works on cars too. I spent yesterday taking 600+ pictures for my usual photogrammetry workflow and fed 1 picture this got 90% of the way there, in like 20 seconds. That's awesome. It’s not good enough for what I want to do yet, but it reminds me a lot of playing with the early versions of Disco Diffusion. It’s going to be really cool, really soon!

[@4.0.4]

This would be absolutely excellent for a starting point, if you have concept art. Also it will get better than this over time!

[@GuestUser-jf8uj]

you did exactly what I'd hoped someone would do, show a potential pipeline/workflow when everyones whining that it's not "pipeline friendly" or whatever. If you have the time, would you be able to make a video showcasing one of those characters working in a topdown UE5 template? I don't have the skill to do that but it would be sick to see it in action

[@a123b123c123d123c123]

To be honest I think the quality female character wasn't that far from the quality of the male characters. I think you just have higher standards for female characters.

[@fabbrobbaf]

This is the kind of AI I want to use, a tool that helps me, not substitutes me.

[@kingfirebone2000]

Trellis Multi image generation was just released too, should be a good tool for controlling the generation.

[@fals_volks3127]

The helmet is actually pretty good.....like a pilot helmet or Military helmet 🤔

[@alhusseinali]

Oh that's huge !!!

[@Marcel2278]

I will admit it gives out trash topology but it does give you a solid base mesh starting point and if you're good at retopo you can have a finished high quality character in a day instead of a week

[@darrennew8211]

"Instant Meshes" is another great remeshing program for free. But this is really cool. I wonder how it does on props unrelated to medieval characters.

[@Gryff_Art_3D]

Another day, another royal skies video, splendid! I dig this sort of “let’s find out” unscripted seeming video, keep it up man!

[@TechCarnivore1]

Can you run this locally? I will utilize this for sure but how would I go about releasing my game on steam without receiving spam negative reviews by anti-AI people? If I release a game and they know I used AI, they will send me death threats. I have seen it before and it has happened to people I have talked to.

[@TheRoyalSkies]

I believe you can run it locally - And, don't worry about the hate spam, it's only been around a year and the average person is already enjoying AI stuff like Harry Potter wearing Balenciaga, Pirates of the Carrabean going to the gym, and Star Wars vs Gucci videos are wildly popular. It's becoming normalized very quickly, and within a few years will be as standard as photoshop. In addition, there are plenty of large groups of people who support AI, and you should definitely join and share your creations on those discords so they have the chance to see and support your work - so just hang tight and enjoy what you create in the meanwhile :)

[@baraneo8195]

Yo, should test more like this. Enjoyed watching

[@wycoturmoil]

I like how you adapt this

[@ShahanAkhter]

that's incredible... never knew about this.. thanks for getting straight to testing and showing what it can do

[@penscrap]

I've learned from testing (certain) Mirko images, TRELLIS is surprisingly good at interoperating shapely backstory just from the contours of front leg muscles

[@slavsit7600]

we got a cultured man right here

[@hefferwolff3578]

Woah amazing!

[@ivanm.612]

Give it a rig and try to animate the character. 😅

[@Cwutter]

as refine they are getting, will this may hand made artist obsolete?

[@lefourbe5596]

nah only the bad ones, the actual good Artists do not fear this. they will use it partially when it's convenient or go hybrid workflow. for example, electronic music have not replaced instrumental. but there is probably less of it.

[@Zeithri]

That's pretty neato.

[@NeoDragoon159]

This could be very useful for 3d printing.

[@konoko-o3o]

Topology is not the only issue. When you zoom in on the character, the details look terrible. To make it usable, you need to create each component of the character's armor or clothing individually, then assemble everything, retopologize it, and apply textures, but is certainly a beginning It will accelerate a lot my projects.

[@Grumpy_Kangaroo]

I don't like A.I I can't stress that enough but this...this changes the game. I can't draw for crap but i've become decent at making models when I have a reference of some sort. This has allowed me to turn my bad art into useable reference to actually make something cool

[@pollyhedralcathedral]

I shall be a conceptualizing waaaaaay more now!!! Hell Yeah!!!

[@dreamisover9813]

obviously it's not perfect, but that's still very impressive!

[@zid_just_zid]

Great to see you playing around with this, ive been poking at a couple of avatars using trellis and cleaning up the topo afterwards. Would you consider giving Stable Projectorz a go and reporting some thoughts? It would be an on topic follow up to this vid as it is a free AI Gen texturing tool. I cant recall if ive ever commented on one of your vids but ill make sure of it now: Thank you for your series on UV mapping, rigging and weight painting in blender, they were very great when i was getting started and i always refer people to them if they ask about the topics.

[@The_SupremeSage]

“Specific” details

[@HeavyHouse24]

look at that. Just start studying 3D and now A.I can do it too. Welp, look like I gonna be on the street

[@CryptidMom]

I'm not sure if this was covered before, but as cool as this is... wouldn't Steam not allow us to use these in a game that's on their marketplace?

[@h2diii]

👍👍👍

[@TimesMen-LY-1]

hey can anyone tell that "how to fix topology" because that would be great

[@RusticKey]

Use remeshing features in your favourite 3D software. Zbrush has a very good remesher and Blender has Quadriflow (but I think it's kinda arse), you can also use Instant Mesh. They are good enough otherwise you can manually fix them.

[@johnramhos]

Well companies will just generate the 2d image via Midjourney or whatever and then use this. So AI for everything!

[@pranav_indoria]

Hey man, could you make a tutorial on installing it locally, that would be great...

[@SanyaBane]

😮

[@centripetal6157]

You forgot to mention that every image generated will cost money. It's not free - after a certain amount, you get charged.

[@Ai_wifus]

its free you can install it on your pc

[@lefourbe5596]

yeh but if you have a 16Gb + Nvidia GPU in your desktop it would be free

[@Ai_wifus]

@@lefourbe5596 it works on my rtx 3060 12gb

[@centripetal6157]

@@Ai_wifus wait... how do you install it for free?

[@nekospace3614]

😉 well i'ven I'm a man who's enjoying drawing male characters, i feeling right now it's something very intriguing here with everybody here 😉. (Certainly authentic everyone here)

[@mayckonwolf]

is bad,i mean maybe for objects is useful.

[@Radar_2576]

As a 3D artist - what a shitty time to be alive

[@SaishiYT]

Yep, my thoughts exactly!

[@ASchnacky]

a mathematician said that about the calculator

[@lefourbe5596]

then get beter ?

[@Radar_2576]

@@lefourbe5596 what for? If there won't be a need for the good 3D artist soon, then why would I.

[@lefourbe5596]

there will be a need still. stuff won't be made by themselve. Provide value where ai lacks and where it's not lacking build on top of it.

[@newbossbro3180]

This is going to take so many ppl out of job.

[@weltlos]

Hopefully (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)

[@gamepeon8038]

Games might go back to taking 2 years to make again like back in the PS2 days so we can see more niche games getting made with a closer level to AAA quality.

[@Radar_2576]

​@@weltloswhat you mean hopefully? Right now as a beginning 3D artist, you need to have at least +3 years of experience to have a chance at recruiting for a job.

[@newbossbro3180]

@@gamepeon8038 honestly I dont believe this myth of "taking too long to make games". Indies already pumping out games with far smaller team than to AAAs. AAAs should stop the habit of firing veterans out of job to save profit. Also predatory practices they do.

[@nyomanbandarayani6830]

Nah, this AI can't retopo nor UV mapping. As long as AI can't do that, there is no reason to use AI

[@SpaceDorito]

Honestly I got nothing against AI as long as it doesn't steal my stuff without consent and doesn't take my job away in 10 years 😭

[@maicoxmauler2825]

5 years it is!

[@Jack-e5t]

lol its goin to do both of those things bud. at least itll make some rich shareholders richer.

[@lefourbe5596]

it's up to you to stay relevant. produce more and beter with the tools at disposal.

[@l.a.w.6494]

Here me out is bad if you draw a character design then have ai make it 3d, then do the retopo. Should your game get hate

[@wycoturmoil]

...it's still your intellectual property. You supplied the image you created.

[@Rheez3D]

Well its the only way you'd get an original design. Ai is a just another tool in your toolkit as an artist/game developer. Whatever works works right ?

[@hoangtran0901]

why dont you show the blender model in wireframe bro

[@TheRoyalSkies]

I got you bro - 1:37

[@nekospace3614]

😉 well i'ven I'm a man who's enjoying drawing male characters, i feeling right now it's something very intriguing here with everybody here 😉. (Certainly authentic everyone here)