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thread of stuff for zombies project till its done

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@PIuginsGod I have had maybe 2 good experience with an editor in like 3 years and it was on a joined obey video 🤣

live doing some 3d: twitch.tv/mallowedx

@SkallEdit its a full coded plugin

@Mallowed Very dope! Entirely made with Editor Utility Widget or you had to code a plugin o: ?

now i have sorted my issues out and started working in unreal engine again, i picked this back up the goal is to make everything a 1 click solution. here you see a camo designed for bo7 work on bo1 with just 1 click and its like this for everything for every game

@hudsun_ i just realised my brain started sliding to the end of that sentance. but yeah stuff as simple as that. and im sure there is a way to do it in blender that may seem easy. but basic stuff like that is industry standard. there are a bunch of small things like that, that add up

@hudsun_ there is that and i think it just comes to navigation also, blender overcomplicates some very basic stuff for example in any other 3d program i can select all the objects i want, enter a value in the input window and it will apply to all, doesnt work in blender do that

fbx from blender to any program sucks balls. usd from blender sucks balls. maya fbx to c4d sucks balls usd from any program to c4d sucks balls. holy fuck im actually getting stressed because its a fucking nightmare to just get a scene from one program to another with ease

@SamWelkerTV i wont knock someone for making w living especially in a time like now. If its what needs to be done then so be it. But openly supporting some of these tools in a time where we should be all banding together as artists isnt it man, if artists dont care why is anyone else going to

@Mallowed Like you said AI isn’t innately bad. It’s not even bad to have generative AI in theory. The model’s method of training is bad and needs resolved. Regardless until we know how that’ll work itself out we professional artists must be prepared to stay employed.

its a shame to watch somone who used to be the guy to go to for octane tuts become a ai shill. over the past few months every time i have seen this guy post its been reaffirming ai slop and its just sad to see

@SamWelkerTV models that levarge stolen data is just something that no artist should endorse. the "it might create more jobs in the future" is bs... any artist would be mad if you took their work, alterted it and sold it. but its okay when using ai to do the exact same?

@SamWelkerTV he actively supports and uses ai tools, some of which are built on artists stolen data. this is not to say all ai tools are bad, corridor digitals keying model is amazing. but tools that take away the original artists intention or are made from stolen data is a no

@DavidAriew ian hubert is a prime example. people love dynamo dream but artsist equally love all the showcases of what goes on to create such work. no one would care if it was just created by throwing promots at a screen untill he found one he liked

@DavidAriew most artists i know would love to speak about the process and what it took to create their outcome rather than just have the outcome because they care about the blood sweat and tears that is put into such work

@DavidAriew i say this with no malice because i respect your hard work and content over the years but thats the ceiling you chose. you made the choice to stop improving and rely on ai. there is countless showcases of artists displaying photorealism without the use of ai or need for it.

I mean it’s not super easy to admit but it adds photorealistic details into scenes to a level that I could never achieve after a 15+ year career in 3D, so it’s not just better than beginners or lazy people, it’s better than I am. Not at abstract scenes and stuff I make in 3D that’s literally never been seen before, but better at stuff that has a ton of references to pull from.

@Zants I think many had a nft phase because they didnt quite understand it or saw it as a way to try gain some traction and revenue. Which i wont knock. And yeah agreed i dont get it either. I think its an insult to their hard earned built skills, community and peers

@Mallowed I mean to be fair I had my own NFT phase, it was just a phase though. I seriously can’t understand how so many people are willing to undermine the very art the got them to where they are today

@Zants i wont knock someone for making a living but acting like you care about the medium when you just want to line your own pockets is something else. he also heavily pushed nft's...

@Mallowed I’m sure he has great financial incentive to do so

@DavidAriew i forgot to type this when i was writing this out but it does not see patterns better than most humans. human evolution is quite literally pattern recogition. most advanced skills use pattern recognition to the maxium. its just better than sleezy and lazy people

And yet it gets closer to the real world than actual render engines, so it’s estimating very very well. The stealing debate is something else entirely, and I believe that AI is actually doing the process of creating art, except that it’s “seen” and understands the patterns in the refs it’s seen far better than any individual artist possibly could. In the same way we’re seeing all coders being replaced by AI and now they’re vibe coding, 3D artists and visual storytellers will be the ones who drive AI best imo. It’s not the future I expected but it’s here in front of us and it’s not going away. I’ve been using AI a lot lately, and to get a great result it’s not easy, and it’s still a lot of work. I end up creating orders of magnitude more content than I do with 3D in the same time period, but I’m still working just as hard as I would on a 3D project. I agree that this is startling in how it democratizes the tech, and the barrier to entry is so small, so there will be a ton more people with access to tools to create amazing visuals, much like when DSLRs hit the scene back in 2008, and it pissed off all the “real artists” and professional photographers. Ultimately I think this will only create more jobs than before (I hope) and to be a well paid artist you will still need all those soft skills and years of experience, which is why I’m not panicking about losing my job.

@DavidAriew ai is not rendering advancements... its esitmation, which in most cases is built by stealing real artists work. people want to become artists without putting in the effort and in most cases devoids any of the original artist intentions.

@Mallowed Yes yes advancements to rendering, so sad, so slop.

@hudsun_ blender poooopy

@Mallowed its time to switch everything to blender