3 ms·

Another example is upscaled texture mods, which has been a trend for a long while before 'large language' took off as a trend. Mods to improve textures in a gam

Another example is upscaled texture mods, which has been a trend for a long while before 'large language' took off as a trend. Mods to improve textures in a game are definitely not new and that probably means including from other sources, but the ability to automate/industrialize that (and presumably a lot of training material available) meant there was a big wave of that mod category a few years back. My impression is that gamers will overlook a lot so long as it's 'free' or at least are very anti-business (even if the industry they enjoy relies upon it), the moment money is involved they suddenly care a lot about the whole fabric being hand made and need verification that everyone involved was handsomely rewarded.

KellyCriterion 7mo ago
This should be completely crushed by Nano Banana models?
- theshrike79 7mo ago
  The issue isn't objective quality or realism, it's sticking to a specific style consistently. _Everyone_ (and their grandmother) can instantly tell a ChatGPT generated image, it has a very distinct style - and in my experience no amount of prompting will make it go away. Same for Grok and to a smaller degree Google's stuff. What the industry needs (and uses) is something they can feed a, say, wall texture into and the AI workflow will produce a summer, winter and fall variant of that - in the exact style the specific game is using.
  - mejutoco 7mo ago
    I think txt2img and img2img are terms to find those uses.
    - bavell 7mo ago
      And comfyUI workflows. People have been doing this for awhile now.
      - theshrike79 7mo ago
        ComfyUI is relatively new, but pretty good at what it does
      - mejutoco 7mo ago
        And stablediffusion-web-ui before that and others, yes. When googling, txt2img and img2img, or txt2video img2video etc. (for video) are useful terms, since they encapsulate the usage in a few terms. One could search img2video comfyui workflows, for example. I thought it would be useful for the conversation to provide these terms, not mentioned before in the thread.
- raincole 7mo ago
  If we're talking about texture upscaling alone (I suppose that's what the parent comment means), Nano Banana is a huge overkill.

KellyCriterion 7mo ago

This should be completely crushed by Nano Banana models?

theshrike79 7mo ago
The issue isn't objective quality or realism, it's sticking to a specific style consistently. _Everyone_ (and their grandmother) can instantly tell a ChatGPT generated image, it has a very distinct style - and in my experience no amount of prompting will make it go away. Same for Grok and to a smaller degree Google's stuff. What the industry needs (and uses) is something they can feed a, say, wall texture into and the AI workflow will produce a summer, winter and fall variant of that - in the exact style the specific game is using.
- mejutoco 7mo ago
  I think txt2img and img2img are terms to find those uses.
  - bavell 7mo ago
    And comfyUI workflows. People have been doing this for awhile now.
    - theshrike79 7mo ago
      ComfyUI is relatively new, but pretty good at what it does
    - mejutoco 7mo ago
      And stablediffusion-web-ui before that and others, yes. When googling, txt2img and img2img, or txt2video img2video etc. (for video) are useful terms, since they encapsulate the usage in a few terms. One could search img2video comfyui workflows, for example. I thought it would be useful for the conversation to provide these terms, not mentioned before in the thread.
raincole 7mo ago
If we're talking about texture upscaling alone (I suppose that's what the parent comment means), Nano Banana is a huge overkill.