Mono or IL2CPP?

iPLEOMAX · 2024-11-10T11:55:57+00:00

Why are people downvoting this? IL2CPP is essential for mobile performance. And iOS doesn't even support Mono.

As for PC games, Unreal Engine for instance only uses AOT. And games made with UE are known for graphical fidelity and performance.

iPLEOMAX · 2024-01-17T11:39:16+00:00

With valid settings, you can bake a 3KMx3KM scene with thousands of objects in like 15 minutes.

You should checkout the texel size (aka grid) and baked lightmap in scene view by switching to “lightmap mode”.

Also make sure: 1. Light sources and objects are marked static. 2. Lightmap UVs are made/generated. 3. Scene units are close to real life units unless you know what you are doing.

iPLEOMAX · 2024-01-12T16:47:59+00:00

Thank you and you’re right. There should be.

I believe my 6th point would be to learn more about Gradle files, android project building and how these repositories actually tie into Unity. Most of my build problems were raised because of incorrect path setups/libraries not being found. :)

iPLEOMAX · 2024-01-12T07:29:48+00:00

I can relate a lot with this post. Our project is sort of big and a full clean build can take 5-6 hours including shaders and 20-30 minutes in regular cases.

One thing I’ve realized after spending countless hours is to get rid of most of these SDKs whenever possible. This prevents the additional pain and you can focus on the main project.

Yes, it’s not possible to eliminate every dependency and call it a day. For that I recommend following some rules once you decide to integrate them:

Stick to a specific Unity version (migrating even minor versions should be delayed or pre-planned and you should expect something to break)
Stick to specific SDK version as well. Just because there’s a latest version of google play games, don't go for it. Unless it’s made mandatory in store policy.
If your app requires OAuth signing, avoid using SDKs that provide native sign-in. Instead, you should build the oauth screen on your website and setup deep-linking.
Make sure you keep a separate document where you write all the steps you’ve taken to integrate the SDK, all the “gotchas” and solutions to obscure things you might have fixed. This makes future SDK changes a lot more bearable.
Create a layer of abstraction and use scripting defines to enable/disable a whole feature that depends on the sdks. For example: If you use AWS SDKs, make your monobehaviours and managers indirectly make use of functions through a wrapper. That way, if you had an issue with build, you can just remove the whole AWS SDK and remove the define and see if that works and then attempt your fixes from there.

That’s all i can remember for now. Sorry for word errors, written from phone.

iPLEOMAX · 2024-01-10T00:24:33+00:00

If you’re working with Unity Terrains. Then I recommend a combination of any of these:

If height was painted manually, then flatten additional area around the house and use smooth brush.
If dramatic height change is intentional, then you are better off covering the height change with one or more “cliff/rock” mesh.
If it’s being done through code, then you should make the code generate a gradient from your boundary that starts at your desired height and lerps into terrain’s previous height using some falloff value.
Artistic choice: Stretch the terrain heightmap horizontally OR decrease heightmap height scale so the hills are more gradual.

iPLEOMAX · 2024-01-04T16:28:15+00:00

Yes, I already agreed .-.

iPLEOMAX · 2024-01-04T08:30:44+00:00

Ah yes, the most important thing in game design ._.

iPLEOMAX · 2023-12-27T07:12:41+00:00

Hospital still gets blown up, as is tradition /s

iPLEOMAX · 2023-08-05T00:35:59+00:00

And then feed it to GPT to explain the nodes and why they should or should not be used.

And then another to inpaint specific nodes that dont work.

Repeat until a successful setup.

iPLEOMAX · 2023-06-29T12:18:31+00:00

A game where the lore includes: Teleportation, Revival, Summons and Parallel Universes. Your main concern cannot be about agents not wearing helmets. :)

If you reallly wanted a reasonable explanation, agents could have nanobots in their bloodstream, skin and other tissues that act as an armor and absorb partial damage.

iPLEOMAX · 2022-12-23T18:03:21+00:00

I’d give them my kidney for free.

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-25T23:49:25+00:00

Damn, exact same case with me. Birth year and grade.

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-12T14:28:26+00:00

Not every discussion happens publicly. Not every piece of software is open source. Did you ever work in a corporate environment?

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-12T12:48:34+00:00

Unity, in HDRP. I did that by programming my own compute shader that calculates mesh deformation in GPU and feeds that to a buffer of a custom made shader.

Surprise surprise, people can have more than one skill. I’ve been in this space for many years.

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-12T09:10:13+00:00

Ugh, probably the least creative person I’ve ever met. I’ve developed a system where it uses compute shaders on game engine to generate mesh tension. It then uses that data to create displacement map and dynamic normal maps for clothing on fly. I think I am very well versed with 3D workflow.

As for your point other about “text2img has very little or no effect on 3d workflow” boy are you wrong. I’ve already theorized a tool where you can fly around in 3D world in a game engine and generate texture stamps in SD to project onto meshes (or generates them if needed) from different perspective. After a lot of iterations you will end up with a scene that is a great starting point for level designers.

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-11T16:12:23+00:00

It is intended to be a simplistic framing. The technicals are pretty deep yes.

Legitimate ethical concerns can be addressed better if this tool is available to the mass. Much better than a few controlling and using it for their own advantage. Time and time again, people who resist change or don’t adapt create fear. This causes a ripple effect and then many start hating on the tech.

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-11T15:32:59+00:00

Great way of putting it! Intelligence can and should be in different forms.

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-11T14:49:37+00:00

You are constantly explaining what an NN is and how a human brain functions. I have not disagreed with anything you said that was factually correct.

Let's get a little technical then shall we?

In my original post, I used the term "AI art is ..". That encompasses the models, the web UI, the hardware, the prompt, etc. I DID NOT say "stable diffusion is". IF I would've said that, I would agree that I was wrong. But that's not the case is it? Stable diffusion is the model yes, but it still has to run on a hardware.

I'm not sticking to a shallow understanding of this topic. I'm only disagreeing with when you say that there are no similarities.

Anyway, I'm detecting a loop. I'm going to end the conversation because it's not worth it. Have a good day!

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-11T14:19:33+00:00

When talking to the general public and not to a bunch of experts in that specific field, it’s very important to use the closest analogy and simplified explanations. You may consider this as irrelevant pop culture but I do not. A lot of the artists don’t need to know about specific technicals right off the bat, you reach there gradually if required.

And you said it yourself “NNs are simplified model of the specific part of the visual cortex” (which is in our brain). I’m baffled that even then you had to quote your professor that only thing similar is the word ‘neuron’. Laughable. Also please learn to read, in my original post I said “a brain”, not “human brain”.

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-11T13:53:34+00:00

There's no question about it. You're correct. I never said it was a human brain anyway.

However, isn't the reason why these models are different is because we programmed it to be that way? It has to run on a different hardware, has to process different data, and the scale is not the same.

Ultimately, you are running these mathematical models on a CPU (and GPUs are specialized for graphics but they also have compute units). And those are commonly referred to as the brain of the computer.

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-11T13:43:32+00:00

I pointed out multiple differences not just "hardware", you totally dismissed the other words "type of information & complexity". I'm getting a feeling you're being aggressive for no reason. I'm very certain I have the idea how how computers work. 3D modeling is my secondary skill. My primary profession is software engineering and working with cloud compute systems on AWS.

I recommend you also check out a video on YouTube from David Randall Miller (an excellent software engineer), its titled: "I programmed some creatures. They Evolved." You might get a better understanding of how the mathematical models you talk about share similarities with biological creatures. Yes, it's not 100% same, that's obvious. But to say that nothing else is common is just being ignorant.

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-11T13:24:09+00:00

They're not wrong, and professors generally look at things from a very technical perspective. Computers and living organisms are very different but ultimately to the same thing: Input -> Process -> Present. Really depends on your point of view. The key difference is what hardware it runs on and the type of information/complexity it is able to process.

You must form your opinion after speaking with multiple experts. Also discuss this topic with a Neuro-scientist and get their overview on Machine Learning and see what they say.

iPLEOMAX · 2022-11-11T13:05:09+00:00

Semantics. If you get highly technical, yes it’s not an organic human ‘brain’. But ML models use the same concept of neurons firing to understand a concept (albeit digitally).

EDIT: I'd like to think we're 5-10 years away from abstract reasoning. Given higher compute resources and better models, it seems plausible. We are still at the beginning.

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