Artificial Intelligence (AI) - for 3D Modeling Textures

[scottb613]

Hi Folks,

Here's a novel idea for using AI (Chat GPT) to create textures for your models.

Have AI generated images for use as textures.

This was my second attempt at: "Make me a 1940's two story brick storefront suitable for modeling as a texture sheet - front elevation - orthographic view" - I could make a GREAT looking 3D Model out of this in a matter of minutes.

Seems the image generators are not as up to speed as the coding engines. It can be pretty difficult to get what you want - and - it would probably be hard to get consistently good results.

Man - if I could get 20 or 30 images like this - what I could do with them - (sigh) - it would be the best-looking town I've ever seen in ORTS...

Just food for thought.

While not perfect - I love this image.

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Regards,
Scott

[rdayt]

I managed to find a fair number of images using Google's Gemini before they "made it better".
Just the windows are worth a lot.

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Randy

[phigui]

Hello
Very interesting and promising indeed. Thanks a lot for sharing this nice image.

Phil

[scottb613]

I managed to find a fair number of images using Google's Gemini before they "made it better".
Just the windows are worth a lot.

Randy

Yep - populated windows sure do seem to add a great deal.

Hello
Very interesting and promising indeed. Thanks a lot for sharing this nice image.

Phil

Yeah - it's hard to get consistent results - but - they are improving at an exponential rate - maybe soon - if it doesn't destroy us first.
😁

Regards,
Scott

[pwillard]

Yeah, I agree. If you get usable results, they are pretty good. AI images usually have some obvious flaws that make them unusable, though. Also, Images seem to be the focus of some recent lawsuits against AI.

There are even tools like MESHY that try to make your 3d model for you.

There are also tools like FSPY that will apply the corner view properly once you create the proper *camera* view using perspective lines.

[railrunner112]

I have used copilot to make these, a nice way to fill up streets

[scottb613]

I have used copilot to make these, a nice way to fill up streets

Hi...

Nice work - when put together - it's certainly convincing.
😉

Regards,
Scott

[longiron]

I have used copilot to make these, a nice way to fill up streets

A pretty simple mesh under that artwork would make a very impressive street scene. Curious what exactly did you request from Co-pilot to get those images?

[railrunner112]

I did something like Make me a two story brick terraced house front view - grime and other variations. Obviously I had to fix some double front doors and other AI glitches but in the end I managed to get about 50 single houses in a few weeks. I also made them in lenghts corresponding to a1 track pieces so you can use the TSRE copy/paste pos/rotation options to filll up streets quickly and easily.

[pwillard]

Meshy, on the other hand, is stingy with what you get for credits, so the end result is that I hate it.