How I use Ai to make 3D Models for my Game!

today we will be using AI to generate my game because the world as we know it is about to change artificial intelligence is changing everything we are standing at the precipice of immense potential and opportunity and yet at the same time I feel gripped with uncertainty well what I do today still matter tomorrow is there any point in learning any skill when AI Is surpassing Us in every way well I believe that as we step into this new era we have to adapt and evolve to keep up with the times so take my hand and make this first step with me because today we'll be tapping into the power of artificial intelligence as we use various AI tools to help me create my game now before we jump into the meat and bone of the video I have to explain something to you real quick the game that AI will help me with in this video is a tower defense game that I've been working on where you have to protect a resource mining drill from waves of monsters by building walls and defense systems the game will feature Base building Tower Defense and roguelike elements and now that you know what's up let's crack into it the first step is almost always to brainstorm new ideas and this time it won't be any different we will be brainstorming ideas for a new defense turret but this time instead of spending hours on the toilet trying to find those new ideas I instead use newcleaner's new AI tool called sidekick Sidekick is basically chat GPT but built into the app I'm already using to design my game getting my newfound sidekick to spit out his genius is as simple as just asking him to generate ideas for a new turret and Boya boy did he deliver he generated a ton of great ideas but the one that truly electrified me was the Tesla turret I immediately could Envision it and that's how it was decided I'm adding a Tesla turret to my game thank you sidekick very cool foreign [Music] to Life by creating a visual concept for this I used an AI tool named majorly mid Journey generates 2D images from Simple Text prompts and to be honest to get exactly what I imagined turned out to be a bit more tricky than I anticipated but after spending a little time engineering the perfect prompt I finally got exactly what I imagined having a 2d representation of our Tesla turret is cool and all but this is a 3D game and so we need to turn our 2D image into a 3D model normally you would have to model it in a 3D modeling software like blender but there actually is an AI for this too I use the AI tool named kdim this tool generates 3D meshes using 2D images and so I inputted the 2D image of my Tesla turret and in less than a minute the AI generated a nice 3D model for me I have to say it was pretty amazing seeing how quickly and accurately the AI was able to create my 3D model from a simple image however the ai's auto texturing wasn't exactly what I wanted so I simply slapped some temporary materials on it to make it look slightly better okay so our test letter is now in the game but it's not doing anything yet it's time to program it if I really wanted to follow this video's theme I could be using chat GPT to write the code but I had a pretty good idea of how to do it myself so I just did it myself the turret's functionality are pretty simple I have an invisible sphere called a collision sphere around the turret the turret always checks if there are any enemies in that sphere and if they are it draws a line to the enemy to make sure that there is nothing in the way if the line connects to the enemy it applies damage to it and keeps damaging it until it dies finally I use the unreal engine's particle system to create this cool lightning effect the really cool part about the Tesla turret is it's not only limited to one enemy it zaps all the enemies in its range and I have to say it's quite satisfying to watch now this looks great and all but let's face it this isn't anything complex it's basically a long cylinder with some rings around it so this time let's put this process properly to the test by creating something a lot more complex a new enemy because what's a tower defense game without its enemies it's like having poop with no glow first let's take a moment to talk about today's sponsor this little guy as a developer I've tried a lot of sites but I have to say that nucleino is hands down the best platform out there for anyone in the industry whether you're a solo developer or an indie Studio or a big shot AAA company they have a vast array of design document templates that will save you from the tedious and time-consuming tasks of organizing and structuring your project with nucleino you can easily create a template and start writing down your ideas in the right categories making the whole process much more manageable and the icing on the cake well you saw it already it's new cleaners new AI sidekick which will help you reignite your creativity and get those brain corks turning again when you're out of juice so why not give it a shot check out new cleaner in the description below and get two months of free premium access to try it out for yourself thanks new cleaner for sponsoring this video and supporting my creative Journey so for the new enemy I had the idea of a stone Golem just like the first time I ask mid journey to generate me some images of stone golems however getting a full body front view of the character out of my journey feels harder than hacking into freaking NASA I mean look at this text I had to pull out of my to get what I wanted and yes it's really important to get a full body frontal view of the character if we want KDM to generate a good 3D model eventually I did get what I wanted and fed the image to Kate him I also wanted KDM to generate something a bit more on the low poly side so I lowered the poly count overall I'm pretty happy with the model itself it looks pretty good but it's more of a blockout than a final character as you can see the character consists of blocks put together in a way that makes it look like the Golem I told it to make the problem with this is that it generates quite a bit of unnecessary mesh that the player will never see since it's inside of the Golem and this is simply not very optimized but for now it will do the next step was to get this guy animated sadly there is no AI tool for this yet so I just went on to mixamo and gave him this mutant animation set this is quite cool because it makes the golem look heavy and chunky just how I imagined it but we can now also see the second problem with the blockout kadim did when animating the characters some of the blocks are overlapping creating these parts where some blocks are poking out in places they shouldn't anyways after getting him into the game I just had to give him a name and what better name for a chunky Golem than OB oh and is it just me any or is Bob looking kinda the concept behind Bob is that his big slow but does a lot of damage yo yo jump attack where he jumps into the air closes the distance with his Target and does big AOE damage by the way I don't have a steam page to wish list the game yet so if you want to keep up to date with this project I recommend you subscribe to the channel and join the Discord server Link in the description I involved watch this video next or I will crush you

Channel: Floky

Views: 66,555

Keywords: ai, artificial intelligence, chatgpt, tower defense, base building games, midjourney, kaedim 3d, Devlog, unity, devlog, game development, how to make 3d games, learning how to make games, Unity, Game Development, Game Development Challenge, Unity 3D, Unity Game Development, indie game devlog, game dev, Unreal engine, Unreal engine 5, Indie game dev, dani, Indie Game Development, game devlog, game developer, indie game developer, floky, 3D games, dream game, A.I, ai game development

Id: CzrpmeHcXVI

Length: 8min 34sec (514 seconds)

Published: Tue May 02 2023