My first reaction to DLSS5 can be summarized as “🤮”.

[msinilo@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras Imagine running this on a Mario or Zelda game...

[molecularmusing@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras At some point we can just forget about making models, animations, whatever, and ship low-poly soups because some AI shit will do whatever the hell it wants with the pixels, AI-"enhancing" them anyway.

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras This is clearly garbage, driven by the worst techbro impulses.

[eobet@oldbytes.space]

@aras 4000 euro yassify filter! 🙃

[soulsource@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras I just realized what this reminds me of: My old crappy Casio digital camera, which had a non-optional "denoiser" (probably also "AI" based) that smoothed away a lot of details and re-added stuff that wasn't there.

Even with all filters off, everyone looked like they were wearing makeup. I hated that thing (but couldn't afford to buy another camera back then).

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras It's fucking absurd. Temporal AA/dyn res is already, let's just say, not uncontroversial, but DLSS "classic" is certainly a state-of-the-art impl of that idea. I'm fine with that. (Temporal artifacts are always bugging me, but sigh, such is life I guess?)

Frame generation was already jumping the shark - making up fake frames while doing nothing about latency (and in fact usually making it worse), no thanks.

This is just... no words.

[lich_silvae@masto.fediverse.games]

@aras Very telling the companies who volunteered to be the examples for this tech are some of the most greedy in the industry right now.

[feral_3d@mastodon.social]

@aras this looks like ass.

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras it's not just changing the entire lighting to be higher contrast, deciding "oh it looks like there's fog/haze and puddles of rain in there, let me clean that up for you" (look at what it did in the background!!), it's also _completely_ changing the face and even skin tone

I mean, seriously, WTF

[greenmoonmoon@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras huh, are all the characters going to look directly at the camera each time they are facing it? Talk about fourth wall breaking... Also yuk 🤮

[poetaster@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras Amazing round of bullshit bingo. I was relieved to be spared images by the wall of marketing bull.

[funkylab@mastodon.social]

@rygorous @aras yeah not even the general direction from which faces are illuminated remains (hogwards legacy cart, wtf); not to mention that a broody character with sunken, dark-ringed eyes isn't supposed to look like an Hugo Boss perfume ad)

[ggn@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras I love it how it deforms that "CIGARETTES LOTTO" sign at the top left. 👌👌👌👌 THAT's the AI we all come to love and expect!

[feral_3d@mastodon.social]

@TomF @aras this gives me a headache. Also wow. NODBODY wants this.

[wolfpld@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@molecularmusing @aras This is how VR worked in Lukyanenko's Labirynth trilogy. The first novel was released in 1997, and the setting was era-appropriate, so you had 486 or maybe Pentiums, software rendering, and modems. There was a plot point about needing to stay "inside" for 15 minutes or so, while hunted, because 3 MB of data had to be downloaded.

The VR in the books worked by drawing crude shapes on the screen, while you were in a psychedelic trance that made you see them as a real world.

[rich@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Feral_3D @TomF @aras lol it just runs roop

[doppioslash@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras it’s an abomination nobody needs

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@funkylab @aras or the RE Requiem shot where it goes "oh this needs an ultra-bright white key light for sure" completely changing the mood

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@funkylab @aras or the Starfield one where it goes "moody dank looking spaceship? Nah, imma turn that into the HDR photo furniture catalog version"

[gustav@merveilles.town]

@aras iPhone faceifier https://youtu.be/BzKXF0T75ps?t=718