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@Kittronix You know, I know of a number of racing ones but you’re right about drifting.

I've seen all kinds of different vtuber groups but not a racing/drifting vtuber group. Are there any? I NEED IN

@saintkamus @JonDoyleDesign Like, I get that you think you're on some special mission from the tech lord gods to praise everything and kiss their toes as they walk by, but simplifying the narrative because it helps you look better honestly is tiresome at this point. But hey, I guess if it works huh?

@JonDoyleDesign Yes, we all know "your issue" with it. You don't like it cause "AI bad".

We know how fucking lighting works, that isn’t the issue is it 😂

@saintkamus @JonDoyleDesign No. It looked like shit before I was even told it was AI. The fact that it was AI just made it laughably bad. Prior to that, it was just "bad".

@ExpandYourTribe @flesh2bones @NVIDIAGeForce The problem is she has lip filler now. I'm okay with something like an AI Denoiser. Fine. That's actually useful. IT CHANGES HER FACIAL STRUCTURE.

@flesh2bones @NVIDIAGeForce The ray tracing denoiser is already a form of generative AI. I agree we don’t want our games looking like AI slop, but I think there are some legitimate use cases for generative AI in the rendering pipeline

Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality. Learn More → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/…

@nimlot26 You don't have to hear "ai slop" and go "wow, that's shit". I saw it before I was even told it was AI with the pictures of RE9 and simply went "Wow. That looks like shit. Is this AI?" THEN found out it was AI.

@nimlot26 Plus now the "lighting" has light reflecting on the front of the hair folicles instead of being rear-lit like the model is showing it is. Meaning it's actually DESTROYED the fucking lighting.

After this whole debate about DLSS 5 I came to the conclusion that most of the people talking about it are completely unaware of what they don't know...they're on the peak of ignorance and don't even grasp how little they understand. They just heard generative AI and like Pavlov's dog they just start drooling thinking it's the same shit as unethical slop image generators...for the love of Christ...go and educate yourself before raging on the internet for no reason. DLLS 5 is not a prompt based generator...it's not creating stuff based on someone else's images and hallucinates results. It uses the information from the raster to build up a final render frame with the same information but with better lighting and shading... I'll even give you an example on how much of an impact better shading and lighting has. This is a character I've worked on not long ago. On the left you have a raster render, with some bad shaders. On the right you have a render with raytrace on, a much better shader for both hair and skin. They don't even look like the same person...do they? This is what DLSS5 is doing....getting a result like the one on the right(tbh a lot better) at a smaller cost than actually rendering it. Still the same geo, same textures, same light sources. Some of you will go and say the one on the left is better and it's the artist's vision. It's not...it's just the artist's limitation due to shading and lighting constrains. Every single artist out there would love to get the right result in real time.

@tristanmeere Art Direction is just as much a tool to the game experience as the tools to make it, imo.

@tristanmeere Ultimately, to me, I want realism and realistic graphics to the extent it can BE LEGITIMATELY accomplished by artists representing it. Be it dirt build up on cars and tracks in a racing sim, or wake simulation in games involving water. But I want artistry in games like horror

I feel like an important part of this realism discussion is remembering that no game is actually pursuing reality, it's all a lens of stylization. RE9 might utilize systems of rendering lighting that tried to emulate the real world, but the game itself has so much style.

@JoshuaGayman1 Honestly, fair enough

@lithiumfox i think people take the term realistic way too deep.

Everyone who argues that realism or non-realism is an idiot. It all depends on the context of the game itself and anyone who pretends like it's better one way or another is simple minded. I want my racing sims to have a lot of realism and my pokemon games stylistic

@tristanmeere Mind I love RE9's pathtracing, but it's because to me it adds to the horror with the way the lighting and shadows work. It works REALLY well in the context of the game. (You can stylize realism tbh)

@tristanmeere I really don't like when people generalize in either direction tbh. Plenty of games are trying to pursue reality. Plenty want to be stylized. That's why the ENTIRE discussion is stupid.

@Mach_Juan @ohangryring @digitalfoundry I love ray tracing. I love pathtracing. Always have defended it. This is fucking stupid.

@ohangryring @digitalfoundry All these crybabies always have something to complain about. Raytracing, Pathtracing, FG, now this! If you don't get that this is where games are heading stay on your current GPU/consoles. Plus, if you don't want these features how about you just keep them off.

We've brought back our "zoomer" screenshot tool and loaded up a range of DLSS 5 on/off comparisons from a range of games. Check it out: digitalfoundry.net/features/nvidi…

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Requiem Tomorrow 8am

thank you dokpeppers and @Chukiotan for the raids! we rejoined @lithiumfox doing proper iracing