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Earlier this week, the official X (previously Twitter) account of Nvidia posted a handful of screenshots from Valve’s basic puzzle recreation, Portal. However these have been no odd screenshots, as they have been making use of a brand new AI era instrument inside RTX Remix. Whereas Nvidia believed followers would love this tried glow-up, customers everywhere in the world shortly slandered the makeover, saying it appeared “trash” and “terrible.”
Within the publish, Nvidia was selling a brand new RTX Remix instrument often known as Relaxation API. In keeping with the corporate, this toolkit will allow modders to utilize hundreds of generative AI fashions, generate new particulars in textures, and rework a complete recreation scene with a single textual content immediate.
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The mod has been in improvement since 2021 and is aiming to convey the equal of GTA On-line to Cyberpunk 2077.
Nvidia’s publish has now been considered over two million occasions, with hundreds of replies blasting the pictures. However this is not the primary time the corporate has proven off the capabilities of this generative AI instrument. Again in early June, a brand new weblog publish on the Nvidia web site detailed precisely how the toolkit would work.
“For small mod groups with modders that lack artwork expertise or time, generative AI could be a life saver,” Nvidia mentioned. “It could assist them remaster massive swathes of a recreation’s textures in excessive decision and with bodily correct supplies that work in live performance with RTX Remix’s full ray tracing, saving the modders time that they will spend hand crafting hero belongings in impeccable high quality.”
“Utilizing ComfyUI, which is now accelerated by Tensor Cores on GeForce RTX and NVIDIA RTX GPUs, texture alternative is now considerably sooner.”
Portal Followers Actually Hate Nvidia’s Generative AI Makeover
However when Nvidia’s publish began doing the rounds on social media, it was recreation over. “Hey, you see this recreation with impeccable artwork path? what if it appeared like shit as an alternative?,” one consumer mentioned in response to the Portal screenshots.
Different customers merely mentioned, “Seems to be like shit,” and, “Truly appears like complete trash, wtf.”
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