Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days agoFrom the other Larian article in this community, it seems their engine improvements are largely things that they claim will allow them to iterate on ideas faster, like going right from mocap to a usable animation more quickly.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That sounds excellent.
I truly love that Larian leadership frames everything they talk about around their dev’s and their needs/wants. Another D&D game? “Oh, that’s great, but our devs hearts weren’t in it so we dropped it like a rock.” New engine? They ramble about improvements to dev workflows.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Keep in mind that also comes with Vincke championing AI, and though he says no genAI assets will make it to the final product, there’s still some dissent. Here’s hoping though.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well that can be reasonable. Obviously don’t vibe code an engine, but LLMs are great for basic code autocomplete, or quick utility scripts, things like that.
Really specialized AI (not LLMs/GenAI) can be great at, say, turning raw mocap into character animations. Or turning artist sketches into 3D models.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think very little about AI compared to most people, for or against, but it largely seems to me like a solution in search of a problem, and it’s very cult-like how many CEOs get on board with it so quickly despite its very public lack of actually good results. On paper, the way Vincke describes their use of it sounds fine to me, but hopefully he’s not doing something so idiotic as to mandate its usage, as is happening at workplaces for friends of mine right now.