AI generated Armor Assets

[Panic_at_the_Discord]

would much rather have a handful of hand-crafted models that get recolors every few months than a bottomless swamp of soulless sludge.

[Ath192]

would much rather have a handful of hand-crafted models that get recolors every few months than an bottomless swamp of soulless sludge.

I definitely wouldn't. I'm unsure what a machine could come up with that has any less soul than clicking CTRL C and CTRL V on my keyboard and changing the color on an armor and call it a day. At the end of the day no matter how much push back AI receives, just like any other revolutionary inventions have in the past it will become a dominant tool sooner or later.

It would be cool to see it used for some nice in game assets whenever the company is too short staffed to create those assets themselves. There is a clear shortcoming in the capability of creating assets for all of XIVs content that drops loot, and this could shore up the weakness. If all assets were unique and well-made then I would probably be against AI replacing those. This is not the case though. I have no problem replacing reused assets that didn't bring anything new to the table.


I wanted to see how soulless an AI armor would look like to convince me to prefer the copy pasted assets we have, so simply openning up whatever AI windows bundles in with PCs now a days I asked it to create a fantasy armor set and to show me an elf wearing it.

here is the result:





NGL, those armor sets look SUUUUPER cool, and I would much rather have some of those sets in game than another armor set like the "Classical" version we got in Endwalker, which was just the stormblood PvP armor again. These are crafted sets too, meaning players take time in game to make them and they are just crafting a reskin basically...

[Iscah]

And as I said, use it for concept art, still would need people to actually turn it into actual ingame content and what not.

What would be the benefit of that? Art still has to be created to be fed into the AI program to reconfigure into concept art, so why not just get people to create the concepts directly from their own ideas (ie. exactly what they're already doing) and skip a needlessly complicated and expensive part of the process that makes little difference to the end result?

[CaptainLagbeard]

What would be the benefit of that? Art still has to be created to be fed into the AI program to reconfigure into concept art, so why not just get people to create the concepts directly from their own ideas (ie. exactly what they're already doing) and skip a needlessly complicated and expensive part of the process that makes little difference to the end result?

Mostly speed up the process, since with a good enough machine they can make easily a few hundred sketches in an hour and see if it managed to put something good together to start working off of.