Today at GDC, Roblox announced two AI technologies aimed at streamlining 3D modeling for the platform's endless army of content creators. The tool aims to automatically prepare 3D models for animation and provide AI-powered texture generation, alleviating creative tedium depending on how charitably you want to look at it. or provide a method for accelerating the expansion of a company's exploitable labor pool. .
The first tool announced, Avatar Auto Setup, automatically handles the rigging of humanoid models and prepares them for animation (in this case, for use as Roblox avatars). “With just a click, AutoSetup automatically creates rigs, cages, segments, and skins for your 3D model,” he said in a press release provided by Roblox, adding that the technology could take several days. They claimed that the process would be reduced to minutes. The second tool, Texture Generator, uses predictive image generation to create textures for his 3D objects based on text prompts.
Nick Tornow, VP of Creator Engineering at Roblox, said: “We are building, expanding and building on our platform to support our vision of empowering anyone, anywhere to create anything. We are introducing new technologies and opportunities to monetize.”Just last month, Roblox class action lawsuit Building a platform based on the exploitation of child labor.
A demo video of the new Roblox Studio feature shows a baby-faced mannequin processed by Avatar Auto Setup for your avatar. Before demonstrating the automatic rigging of the model using standard running animations, we will dress the model in a set of clothes thanks to the newly generated attachment points for Roblox cosmetics. Fortunately for our anonymous person, I don't base my impressions on style points. Because they're dressed as fantasy rangers with the world's worst hair and hat combinations. But hey, the automatic rigging seems to be working fine.
Similarly, Roblox showed a set of 3D models with textures provided by a new prompt-based texture generator. His 3D mesh of a backpack is skinned with the prompt “Designer Backpack, Weathered Red Leather” and the generated texture certainly looks like weathered red leather. Roblox also showed an automatically textured treasure chest, an armchair, and a bear that cycles through several textures (armored, icy, cybernetic, etc.). Roblox says in a press release that Texture Generator can be used to create “new look prototypes” that match the quality of the results. The texture matches the input prompt, but looks more like a “starting point” than a “finished product”.
Avatar Auto Setup and Texture Generator are currently available for: roblox studio.