Does anyone know if anything cool appeared in AI textures/ materials field? Ai normal and height map from photo? I tried recent Sampler and see no difference , still same blurry , soft, unspecific normal maps . Any better alternatives recently? I sort of lost my hope and stopped to invest my time but still wonder if anyone…
Is there really a large niche for AI materials? 1. Smart materials are king, and honestly the smaller and more selective your library, the better 2. You already have a infinite supply on (scanned) textures essentially, although some things might be rare The one use I can see is a full texturing pass on an asset, but then…
Niche example: old-ish game moves to new engine or you are making enhanced edition. Doesn't happen that often, but when it does, you are sitting there with hundreds of diffuse textures that need normal maps now. Possibly also roughness, metallic etc. Recreating them properly in designer would take too much time/money.…