This Unreal Engine 5 tool will implode the industry... introducing Meshtron, OdysseyML, and Genesis

[@Bluedrake42]

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[@seanwarren9357]

Not seeing a link to your current UE Project, boss. Happy 2025, brother. o7

[@junechevalier]

I’m a 3D modeler, and sometimes fixing models takes longer than making them from scratch. So if this Meshtron is only “good enough”, I don’t think it’s at the stage where it’s viable to be integrated into a pipeline. Maybe in the future

[@simonmeszaros2770]

no way you could repair manally something which resamble model. maybe in very narrow use case this can be viable. like prototyping.

[@simongravel7407]

Yeah, I was coming here to say this. Gaussian splats, generated environments, botched photogrammetry, none of it is good enough for actual production purposes. A clean mesh is where it's at.

[@brianerbes7766]

It works well to prototype or as a placeholder

[@nikolaaa7180]

I like how you are not saying "AI bad" like everyone and you actually talk about how it could help us make better games easier.

[@pusaywolfgacha9912]

thats exactly peoples issue with AI, it take the barrier of entry for any kind of art and lowers it to everyone, which isnt a bad thing it just means way more art will be made overall meaning if you made money making art that would be more difficult. In this context art could be video games, apps, designs, coding even and obviously pictures, videos and audio. Overall AI isnt bad, its just bad if your income depends on creating art.

[@eggzacklee]

@@pusaywolfgacha9912 I believe traditional artist felt like this when digital art started appearing and taking over

[@VikaSo2Yt]

Making shitty-games very fast 😄generic soulless games 🤣 and destroy game industry

[@Scatty666]

@@eggzackleewe didn’t

[@manoloman9509]

The thing is that you can't say that someone that wrote a prompt for an AI to generate an Image is an artist. Its more like you are making a commission than you doing the art yourself. You dont need any understanding on color theory, composition, design rules or even what looks good to generate a good AI image. People that use AI to generate images arent artists, they are clients to an AI. Besides AI works at its best when you arent very specific on your prompt and use broad words like (Epic, colosal, Beautiful, cosmic, etc), very generic words or just ask it to copy a well established art style. Meaning that even having a good art level doesnt mean that you can control AI to make your own art because doesnt handle specifics well and it will always make its own desitions on how to approach the generation.

[@MURDERAXE]

Shits getting, wait for it... UNREAL 😉

[@BrentonWoods774]

Until you actually try to create an actual game out of it. And then you're like wait... this is f-ing hard.

[@Mewsashi-cz9fo]

I'm sorry but It's unusable in games if it doesn't optimize 3d models. and it doesn't do any of that.

[@MURDERAXE]

@@BrentonWoods774 I am and have created a game from unreal engine. Just have to put the time in to learn it. 👍

[@MURDERAXE]

@@Mewsashi-cz9fo I have faith that it’ll get there with time.

[@SneakyKittyGameDev]

Meshtron sounds like a MASSIVE time saver in recreating 3d scans (maybe doesn't need cleanup for most non important art?)

[@AmberianNationStudios]

That kitchen scene is so surreal for story telling from the past! ❤

[@Diehard148]

Very hyped for all the technologies you showed in this video. We are looking at some ACTUAL next gen shizzle here. I am an absolute sucker for physics simulation. Combined with photo realistic custom generated environments is absolutely mind blowing. I can't wait to see more of this stuff! 'Game changing' has been said so many times, but now it really is.

[@dieselphiend]

I've been dreaming of this for so long. It's been impossible to create something like an entire city that's fully interactive. One where all of the buildings/structures have built out interiors, and thousands of potential objects, all fully rendered, and interactive. Imagine NYC simulated but every single building, and all of the subways, etc are explorable.

[@dianapennepacker6854]

Having your main characters animations that walked, and interacted with the world realistically would be game changing for sports games. More like you're controlling a simulation. That would be so cool. Press a button, and the game would generate a way to tackle the enemy. Or swing your weapon in just the correct way to block their weapon. Then when the weapon hits the enemy they stumble like the Boston Dynamics robots when kicked. I heard it is called inverse kinematics. I fully embrace the future. I can't beleive so many are against it. No it isn't perfect, but the future is bright. Have artists crying that now other people can make games. They can go to hell. That is a good thing. They act like people care how much time they spent learning to program or use tools to make games. Yet no one cares about that. They only want to see your end vision. No one cares about the process being easier. I don't care if a statue was hand made. I would prefer the guy with a power tool who charged me less for the same product. These tools allow people to create their imagination. So short sighted to act like the labor is what makes a video game valuable. In that case I want a video game made in the Congo with forced labor. (lol messing. That was wrong.) One day people are going to be able to generate their games on the fly in a short time via the cloud. "Hey Alexa i want to play Halo 2, mixed with Elden Ring." Boom. Some weird game.

[@CJ_Williams]

So 4D Gaussian splats is basically Braindances from Cyberpunk 2077 when it's incorporated into VR. That's crazy impressive

[@Fergus-H-MacLeod]

This does sound crazy impressive.

[@bobmob1440]

i really love the direction you are takig the channel. two minute papers collab?

[@Bluedrake42]

Appreciate it man! I'm always down for collaborations!

[@iansmith3301]

Bro, all the videos he has always made are hyping up technologies in an unrealistic way making them seem like the most impressive thing ever made when they don't go anywhere. they aren't grounded in reality. in a month he'll probably make a video about another AI generation system that'll make infinite worlds that will be better than Star Citizen. He doesn't even bother to link to the Author's projects, just his ridiculous download blog.

[@DavidHeath-u8m]

Check out AI Scan to BIM focus area. Quite a bit of progress going on in that arena!

[@dinkomalinko8585]

I like your technology videos.. I find cutting edge technology fascinating

[@Bluedrake42]

Thanks man! Me too, and I can't wait to see what we can do with it!

[@zenoemenhemdeslappeslang346]

Can't wait for next week's "This will change the game industry forever..."

[@artem5552]

AI will play a central role in empowering the development of games and propelling the gaming industry into a new epoch in the future

[@nyomanbandarayani6830]

not until they can retopo and UV mapping

[@Tongokai]

You sound like a bot

[@fraserpaine5783]

Just to clarify, Genesis is just a regular physics sim, the AI part is just converting natural language into the parameters for the physics sim to run. Also, that natural language interface is not available at all yet, its just the physics sim. That being said it's a great physics engine, and its purely python based which makes it easier to integrate with a lot of AI research.

[@ThreeChe]

Even without making a game, just using this to instantly prototype photorealistic environments to walk around in and explore is really interesting.

[@ALTINSEA1]

now there is no excuses of game being over budget, over time and over promised.

[@trashcompactorYT]

Can't wait for the OHD UE5 update

[@simbad909]

We use to play unreal at server parties... ppl would drag their gear to the host house and use a server and a buffet table.... was a blast...back in 2000

[@Voidsway]

When you're a software junkie, you catch us with that first line. 😂 Thank you for the new info.

[@ruffleraveninc3602]

Imagine walking through one of these in VR, with all the trippy haze and distortion that AI creates. It'd be like a waking fever dream.

[@krono5el]

this seems cool for a quick concept art direction.

[@aabrany]

It's the first time someone manage to convince me to subscribe to his chanel afe 5 seconds 😂😂😂

[@hershmergersh6733]

we really do like to optimise the fun out of life

[@Penguinz4LOLZ]

Wow! I've been a 3D artist for 10 years now and I'm very impressed ♥!

[@Tarducks]

Thats wild! Thanks for sharing!

[@varietygifts]

I spent forever trying to get genesis world running on a gpu cloud instance (paper space if you want to try yourself) I got it working and… it’s disappointing compared to what their video looks like. More like a python based physics sim where you have to bring your own models and script your own motions, forces, etc. That’s still cool but we have plenty of stuff like that already. Looking forward to them releasing the generate version!

[@Bluedrake42]

Ah interesting! Exciting to talk to someone who has actually gotten it to work. Can you talk more about what your experience with is was? I'm very curious.

[@varietygifts]

@@Bluedrake42 Ok just posted a vid about it! Lmk if you have any more questions. Can't wait to check back on this project when they implement the gs.generate command!

[@Boeing727223]

Excellent video! AI and CGI are dating right now but eventually there will be a marriage and when that happens its going to be insane!

[@r.m8146]

Awesome!!!

[@dmitriimuntean]

Tight. Good video.

[@tawfiqmakram5201]

can you explain in a playlist how to learn genesis AI please ?

[@MisterBettyFish]

i wish there is something like neural LOD if you know what im saying. generating at build time a set of LOD based on NN. i would imagine that would be even more performant than nanite

[@r.m8146]

Please, bring some of these stuff to VR, which is the proper medium to enjoy it.

[@Romeo615Videos]

looks kind of dope... I was planning to stop using ue after this project launch we are doing

[@vertigoz]

Those cabinet polygons issues seems to have mostly to do with being ngon, it's a matter of regenerate those. At a first glance

[@ROWer1393]

I’ll be Waiting for genesis ai review

[@judgsmith]

Sometimes, with organic sculpted shapes, you have to redo the typology anyway.

[@NoobahSteve]

all this is so amazing, but im really waiting for an auto UVing AI lmfao.

[@gerarderloper]

This is something we had in Cyberpunk2077 as a investigative tool. It was cool but sadly only used a few times. It would have been cool if the game had a whole detective route to it and used it a lot more freely but it was just a plot device.

[@TomLis-u3o]

I would love to have tool where I upload reference picture and get quality mesh back. It kind of exists today, but the quality is poor. Unless you are doing some low poly thing

[@MyEarsHurts]

The Genesis ai thing got me hoping its used in games for stuff like dmm or euphoria

[@sp5885]

One step closer to my dream game, millions step head.... At least now, I have a chance.

[@TheMostSavageOfAllGeese]

Going to change all my in game Username's to Gaussian Splat

[@somenygaard]

1-2 man game studio will be able to put out a seriously good game.

[@65384._.]

It does sound amazing. Especially for solo developers. However what I'm concerned about is that these tools may and will devalue the product you are buying on top of getting rid of many talented artists needed in the industry at the moment. I wonder how we're going to solve this issue.

[@pdjinne65]

As a 3D person, now I feel like 2D animators must have felt in the 90's with the advent of 3D... Or manual workers during the industrial revolution. That being said, I have all the AI tools but barely use any in production because of their low quality most of the time.

[@MrNiceguy-u2j]

I can't wait! This will make game dev so much easier. It's not about what it looks like however, it's game play.

[@DivergentDroid]

Feed it Google Earth data and see how close it is to your neighborhood!

[@rickflare6893]

It’s all copyright material, these companies own it.

[@Bluedrake42]

These companies... own... laser scans of real life? 😅

[@hershmergersh6733]

@@Bluedrake42 provided they're the ones who scanned it, yes. Same way as taking a photo of real life is copyrightable

[@Bluedrake42]

@@hershmergersh6733 You misunderstand me. I'm talking about companies who are training AI on their own laser scans of real life.

[@moepOo]

Yeah I'd like to see the training data because I doubt they have all the rights to it.

[@derpherp7432]

That genesis one I think is just a LLM controlling blender?

[@electroncommerce]

Paradigm shifting

[@Pesquisando0b1011]

How long do you take to learn doing something minimal decent in UE5? Why most UE5 game are having some much stuttering issues?

[@tyagagerson]

why the blender version in the thumbnail is outdated

[@239zion]

I wonder when that matrix game will ever be a real thing

[@moonstrobe]

I had to skip forward, because there was too much hype talk and not enough practical application/demonstration.

[@orlandocancel8016]

Take a shot every time he says gaussian splat

[@Bluedrake42]

gaussian splat

[@DDPER_Client]

RIP Enviorment artists

[@DivergentDroid]

Does it remove Wokeness? 😆

[@holdthetruthhostage]

This is why i keep telling people these AAA Companies are money Laundering & lying about their budgeting. Your telling me it cost more to make games now compared to the 2000s when you don't have to make an engine from scratch, and most of everything is built in & free But what's truly going to change it all is Ai Operating your game engine

[@Bluedrake42]

I've been trying to explain this to people for years. It was already way cheaper and easier to make games five years ago than any studio would have you believe... but with AI... that price has been cut by 100.

[@joa1401]

@@Bluedrake42 With AI, that price has not been cut, it has been moved around. ‘AI’ technologies cost money to research and develop. In many cases they cost money to license for enterprise, and tech firms will make these prices as high as they can get away with once studios are reliant on them. The infrastructure needed to train and run some of these models is extremely costly, requiring truly massive GPU farms cooled by ungodly amounts of water. The data used for the training, without which none of this could exist, is in most cases sourced from artists. Artists who frequently haven’t consented to having their labour co-opted to manufacture a competing product.

[@joa1401]

@@Bluedrake42 When these artists lose their jobs because the studios employing them are convinced they’re no longer needed, they’re often quietly rehired to ‘process’ and ‘clean up’ the AI’s output. For this they are paid a fraction of their original salary. All this despite how turning the output into something usable in production is often just as intensive, if not more, than just making it from scratch. That’s not even to mention the warehouses full of underpaid workers in countries like Kenya who OpenAI uses to manually filter explicit and inappropriate content in their datasets and results. ‘AI magic’ is often only possible thanks to the work of humans who aren’t being properly compensated or credited, and the perceived cost effectiveness is often thanks to tech startups subsidising prices in the early days to win over users, with the intention of hiking up prices once they’ve captured a user base. AI can absolutely be used to assist in tasks like background removal, denoising, normal map generation, transcription, photogrammetry, motion capture etc. But the idea of an AI first workflow where a tiny team makes AAA scale work by dictating their brilliant ideas to chat bots and sitting back as algorithms realise it all for them? That’s not feasible or sustainable. The vast majority of artists and devs won’t be able to afford to pursue careers in the field, turning art into something primarily made by the wealthy. Specialist knowledge of creative techniques and approaches will decay with time. The tech sector will have an enormous amount of control over what gets made and you’ll have little protection against your work getting trawled and used to create products you’ll never see a dime from. Audiences and players will be overwhelmed by a tidal wave of low effort derivative content designed for instant gratification or to be purchased by accident in what will be a new golden age for shovelware. Angling yourself as an expert in prompting won’t save you because ChatGPT can prompt perfectly well on its own. This isn’t the creative revolution it’s being advertised to you as. It isn’t about removing the hard work from the artistic process and democratising creative expression. It is about removing the artist from the creative process and increasing profit margins.

[@lighteningnewspodcast]

This actually telling us that our world is fake

[@computron1]

These tools look great, but none of it matters until you can try them and implement them successfully. Can I try Meshtron right now? No I can't. What about Genesis? A lot of videos hyping the fk out of it, but only one that shows it being installed and demoed with the robot arm.

[@Bluedrake42]

this is the first video I’ve ever made on Genesis AI. What are you talking about?

[@bricaaron3978]

My friend, 'Gaussian' is pronounced /GOW-see-en/ or /GOW-shen/. 'Gauss' rhymes with house.

[@randombleachfan]

You forgot to link the links in the comment section.

[@Bluedrake42]

crap, you’re right. I’ll double check that when I get home.

[@randombleachfan]

@Bluedrake42 thank you

[@jerometruitt2731]

I want to use this to mod xcom 2

[@Ricolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

The arcade cabinet wasn't done the wrong way either. You said "that's not the right way" there is no "right way" as long as it works it works and it's optimized. I'd bet the "right way" is less optimized. I hope AI makes it so no one has to work anymore unless they want to. But for themselves and not for money.

[@Bluedrake42]

lol true, you can see one of the polygons is one sided though and goes off the primary body of the cabinet, and while that isn’t “right” it definitely isn’t ideal

[@landorfthemage2142]

Technically yes, but bad practices exist. "It works" can only go so far before it doesn't anymore, and then you have to develop a new method instead of using a good base in the first place.

[@T0mT4yl0r]

No, this means nothing to UE5 and the industry.

[@DetectiveBlackCat]

I do not think I can do better topology than what I see here. Maybe I would do it differently here and there, but "better" is not an objective word here anymore. It is only human pride still left and I am pretty sure it will not last long.

[@ThatGuy_33]

RIP file sizes

[@dimitrishow_D]

ai right now as a creative thing is only good for pretty generic stuff ...example draw a unique nopt humanoid character now let ai try and reacrte that in different positions and styles ..it will look like crap untill; u train it on your own and then still....for unique stuff u need to do most yourself......now this might change..but for now creativly imnot threathened retopo by ai....LOVE IT

[@RIPxBlackHawk]

Harry Potter played in the future, apparently.

[@Amazing_Uploads]

Im looking for an ai that makes gameplay videos look like real life. Anyone knows where i can find that?

[@theblancmange1265]

How did gauss become gaž? XD Subtitles think you say gajin splats.

[@Exitof99]

The way you pronounce gaussian is weird, especially when repeated 16 times according to the transcript (that interpreted it as "gajin"). "Gau" like cow the "see" and "an."

[@MrIneedalifenow]

Gauzian?? Gaussian, please for the love of god. Gaoussian

[@NOFAC394]

gaussian not gawsion

[@Mikkel_ka]

what is your take on "Threat Interactive" videos about UE5 @Bluedrake42 ?

[@Bluedrake42]

I haven't seen that yet, I'll go take a look!

[@zinetx]

The rambling mumbling child? lmao.

[@Ricolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

@@zinetx Never rambles or mumbles. Don't say stupid things.

[@zinetx]

@@Ricolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa you guys are so gullible lmfao.

[@Ricolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

@@zinetx No I just know a lot about AI, blender, gaussian splats, laser scans etc. But if it makes you feel better to think that you're more than welcome to.

[@wdmeister]

Man, we don't even have AI image generators that make sense outside of very narrow genres (like portraits). They produce garbage with countless artifacts. So this 3d stuff that you show here won't be useful for years.

[@Bluedrake42]

Years is a very short amount of time in the grand scheme of things

[@novatonoob]

this technology is good for adding contenct but the real thing that makes videogames are genuine mechanics. Thats why OHD feels soulless, because it does not have any mechanics, after a few games you just played everything you could play. You can add move vehicles and maps but only mechanics and progression is going to keep the playerbase in the long term.

[@cozy-rainy-lofi]

gaus sian not gawjin

[@Zuranthus]

lol you ain't gonna be fixing any complex topology, at a certain point it is easier to just make it the right way from scratch than trying to wizard your way through messed up meshes

[@Bluedrake42]

I don’t disagree with this. I think some objects it might be able to get 100% right though, we’ll see

[@macmartin86]

wow, vague blurry 3D world at the click of a button, just the thing we don't need.

[@niki123489]

Skynet is comming soon....

[@nyomanbandarayani6830]

Nah, this is useless, unless they can retopo and UV mapping. As long as they can't do that, there is no reason to pay AI

[@tbunreall]

This is all early tech, this stuff in 5 to 10 years will probably be the way everything is created

[@SkyboxMonster]

These all look horrifyingly ugly........... I will refuse to entertain or play any "AI" content. This would only harm 3D scanning industry when this trash tries to overtake it

[@comradeinternet467]

BUT SHINY NEW THING GOOD BECAUSE SHINY NEW THING HURTS THE ENVIRONMENT AND HAVING AN ENVIRONMENT IS WOKE, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE /s

[@TheZakanater]

"I will refuse to entertain or play any "AI" content." lol nobody cares

[@ErikLiberty]

@@comradeinternet467 Your computer that you typed that out on uses electricity and therefore hurts the environment according to your worldview. It also uses metal which had to be mined. And plastic which is made from oil that had to be drilled.

[@ErikLiberty]

Google the Mises Institute article by PhD economist Peter St. Onge titled: "Let’s Hope Machines Take Our Jobs: We Want Wealth, Not Jobs" Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman: "All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another." In 1900, 40% of the total US population were farmers. Thanks to automation, today it's 1%. So why isn't there 39% unemployment? Because humanity moved on to do other jobs. To increase wealth for everyone, we need to produce significantly more goods than we currently can. For example, if the goal is for everyone to own a hundred cars, we would need to manufacture billions more vehicles than we're currently capable of. Achieving this requires extensive automation. However, as long as people desire more wealth (and by extension, more goods), there will always be new jobs to fill in the future, even if today's jobs are fully automated.

[@jrgamer1243]

I want to make a game but too stupid to

[@Bluedrake42]

I can teach you how.

[@true2india]

​@@Bluedrake42 I can learn anything and once I get out of High school I'd like to work with you cause u have exactly same interests as me

[@comradeinternet467]

You're not stupid, you just haven't found something that works for you yet. Try something like GDevelop.

[@stefans.8027]

Idk, I saw some of those in two minute papers some time ago and there are always a little catch. Those amazing things are never out of the box perfect. I like how enthusiastic he is, but I hear this hypetrain chu chu a bit to loud here.

[@Bluedrake42]

I definitely mention the issues in this video, it isn’t perfect but it is definitely progressing

[@stefans.8027]

@ agree, you did. But you put so much into it as if this is already a thing that’s close to usable, but that’s more you enthusiasm. Which is nice but I would love to see a bit more what’s possible today and not how bright the future might be.

[@jjasper7512]

Why are development costs getting bigger when it now takes one dude and a few lines of text to get great results!

[@Bluedrake42]

Dude that's what I've been trying to say lol all these games made by studios that are outsourcing to three guys in Malaysia still trying to charge $80 plus microtransactions 😅

[@mrburns366]

Proof we're living in a simulation.. 😂

[@501_Don]

I'm a map creator who uses UEFN can I place the environment in there after converting it to meshes

[@diliupg]

😮😮😮😮

[@ethanwang777]

This is going to make billions in porn industry

[@LanaaAmor]

😮

[@SneakersDK]

I hata AI

[@Bluedrake42]

Hata

[@SneakersDK]

@Bluedrake42 what does that even mean?

[@Bluedrake42]

you tell me lol