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Fourth attempt at building my own 3D game engine from scratch. As if I didn't have enough hobby projects already! Let's see how far I'll go this time.

As an artist that worked his whole life towards realism in games I salute the DLSS 5. It really improves shading and lighting...the two things that we faked forever in games and that were probably the biggest limitation in terms of what can be achieved in real time. As an artist that sees where this is going...well....buckle up guys. I was talking about this stuff not long ago on a stream. It's more likely AI in games will not be about generating models and textures for you but a process at the end of frame creation that will generate details, shaders and lighting. I will venture to say that the next DLSS or the next major update in DLSS will include added details over a simplified render. I guess games will be all about creating the mechanics and blocking out stuff and at render time you will get a fully detailed and believable result. What that means tho is that all those skills that we've developed over long years to be able to create high quality characters and props will become obsolete. Even now, with DLSS 5, you can beautify something like that lazy ass slop of Starfield into something digestible which is mind blowing. Bad art suddenly is not that bad at render time so working out with low skilled, poorly paid artists is even less of a problem. I can just imagine how the suits in top studios are celebrating that the future will require less investment in art departments. I just hope they don't forget that they still need good game mechanics and stories tho.

NVIDIA just announced DLSS 5, which seems to generate AI images on top of upscaling, rather than just upscale what is already there as per all previous DLSS versions and this looks... not good. It is heavily leaning into AI slop, Grace looks like a completely different person.