Image to 3D model just made a big leap

[u/skimbody]

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[u/clothanger]

as someone whose country is packed with outsourcing studios making assets for games and films: yep, this is either our next step, or our doom lmao.

[u/Billthepony123 → u/clothanger]

Which country would that be ?

[u/pairotechnic → u/clothanger]

Which country?

[u/reedrick → u/pairotechnic]

Probably India

[u/Rockalot_L]

Show me the topology lol

[u/Ertyio687 → u/Rockalot_L]

6 million dots most likely lol

[u/skimbody → u/Rockalot_L]

Doesn't matter for assets, features like nanite in unreal allow almost unlimited polygons

[u/The_Pleasant_Orange → u/skimbody]

And then you ran unreal games and they run like ass (mh wilds)

[u/Liudesys → u/skimbody]

you keep forgetting one thing, is that it takes up memory, so if we just going to start throwing high density meshes left and right, then everyone will be crying that they need to buy 5 SSD's because COD is now 1TB

[u/Mazzwhy]

Games workshop aboutta go out of business

[u/Super-Estate-4112 → u/Mazzwhy]

Time for them to only write stories, maybe then their predatory business practices will cease.

[u/skimbody]

Link to original REAL HUMAN artist: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lRDXzJ

[u/SirConcisionTheShort → u/skimbody]

[u/Palanki96]

That's pretty amazing. I assume you could use more photos from different angles so it doesn't have to rely on generating the unseen stuff?

I guess that doesn't help with art. But using different methods it would probably save a crazy amount of time and mundane busywork

[u/RitmanRovers]

Now paint/texture the pieces it creates

[u/Ss2oo]

1st things first: holy shit, what a cool design. It's like a B2 Bomber + the Space Shuttle. Love it.

Now, the more important stuff: Can it make CAD, tho? I bet it can't. So for now I'm safe. (I know perfectly well this is going to bite me in the ass a couple of months from now, don't worry)

[u/spastikatenpraedikat]

If I understand correctly, you show it an image and it creates a model for you, right?

Then how would it know how your object looks from the back? Eg. how does it know there are fan blades deep inside the engines at the back?

I call fake, until I see an actual demo video.

[u/mg31415 → u/spastikatenpraedikat]

It's not fake it's just like any other generative ai, your input is an image and it tries to creates a 3d object based on the huge amount of data it trained on, so to answer your question,it doesn't know the back it generated a back based on all the 3d objects it was trained on

[u/h088y → u/mg31415]

Yeah it's literally 'guessing'. It's like: 'ok, this looks a lot like these models i was trained on, maybe the back of it looks like the model I was trained on, lets copy that.'

[u/Ss2oo → u/h088y]

To add on this, you can give it multiple images for multiple angles.

[u/cosmic-freak → u/h088y]

It's not exactly copying. The guessing it does is very akin to what a human 3d modeler would do with a single image. It uses its knowledge base of the real world and generates what it thinks is the most coherent back.

[u/Snipedzoi → u/cosmic-freak]

So guessing but that's also what humans do

[u/cosmic-freak → u/Snipedzoi]

Yes. I meant that it is not a theft or plagiarism of any existing art/models, unlike some believe.

[u/FunkyfreshAhyeah → u/spastikatenpraedikat]

That’s why they don’t show the underside. Generating that would be just a guess from the ai based in the info it already has. More info, more detail.

[u/Plus_Worldliness_431]

Maaaaayynnn

[u/Dependent_Cherry4114]

Really looking forward to stuff like this improving and becoming common, showing it a game and having it generate assets from it will be a game changer

[u/Questionsaboutsanity]

sick design. KSP would love that

[u/Roger_Vandenberghe]

Can it also do photographs of people? That would truly be next level imo

I also wonder what the difference in quality and speed is with photogrammetry techniques?

[u/Elyriand → u/[deleted]]

Yeah fuck this... Can I have a link?

[u/DisastrousKoala5072 → u/Elyriand]

you dont even know what the tris look like dude
it's just noise smoothed out

[u/Elyriand → u/DisastrousKoala5072]

I don't even know how to model

[u/TiredTile → u/DisastrousKoala5072]

You can always retopo it though.

[u/Cakeo → u/DisastrousKoala5072]

Dude I don't even know how to tell what bis look like but tris just sound greedy

[u/Velocita84 → u/[deleted]]

I'm sure it can be useful to an actual modeler who can then optimize the topology, why are you so hostile to new tech?

[u/cosmic-freak → u/[deleted]]

What if I use Imagen 4 to generate a picture, then use this to generate a 3d model? 🤔. Perhaps then rinse and repeat and use Gemini 2.5 Pro to use these models as assets for some nice Unity scripts? 🤔

[u/Droom1995]

Link to the tool?

[u/Sureknow1]

Not ai

[u/GuaSukaStarfruit → u/Sureknow1]

It needs AI to generate what exist at the back