If only demoscenes were still as prominent today as they used to be. They'd be having a field day with this
Infinigen
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#23This seems extremely cool. I’m wondering if it can be used to create procedural video game assets.
This looks rather extremely similar to something that Unreal already natively supports. Here is a demo video from them - https://youtube.com/watch?v=8tBNZhuWMac
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#24This seems extremely cool. I’m wondering if it can be used to create procedural video game assets.
From the homepage it sounds like they've prioritised geometry fidelity for CV research rather than performance: > Infinigen is optimized for computer vision research, particularly 3D vision. Infinigen does not use bump/normal-maps, full-transparency, or other techniques which fake geometric detail. All fine details of geometry from Infinigen are real, ensuring accurate 3D ground truth. So I suspect the assets wouldn'…
That's actually a fairly ideal fit for nanite meshes.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, we've come a long way. Look at nanite - it might actually be compatible...
Epic did say that you might in some situations forego normalmaps with Nanite and save disk space even though you have super detailed models so it DOES fit in this context. Also, video games are used to take a high poly model and bake a normalmap corresponding to it on a lower poly model anyway so it might also be used that way. I think Doom 3 was the first game to show the technique?
With nanite normal maps are less required than otherwise because the detail is preserved in the mesh. You could make the argument that micro detail normal maps are still useful but those aren't always generated from the mesh. Especially if they are tiling.
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#26Isn't their logo just the (old) Visual Studio logo?
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#27An LLM frontend for this would be amazing. You could describe the scene you want in normal english and iterate eith conversation. It could automatically create scenes from novels and poems.
The whole point of this is to generate diverse training data with accurate labels for model training. If you actually want to create nice scenes, use normal blender and some plugins and free online assets.
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#28Don’t seem to be photorealistic images according to today’s standards
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#29Is what?
"Infinigen is a procedural generator of 3D scenes".
That's not in the title, where it belongs.
Look at all the sibling posts that are done right:
TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid
Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark
Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation
Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas
JReleaser: quick and effortless way to release your project
The infantile downvoting of anyone who calls out useless titles just plays into HN's rep. Knock it off.