Here are some images from ChatGPT that it enhanced from renders I made and then asked it to enhance and add some bits and pieces to with a prompt...
Images:
(the first one was a self portrait that ChatGPT enhanced, which I already painted with me in a fantasy costume)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/00.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/77.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/11.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/22.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/99.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/33.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/44.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/55.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/66.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/88.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/aa.jpg)
Quote from: Matty on Jul 07, 2025, 08:04 PMHere are some images from ChatGPT that it enhanced from renders I made and then asked it to enhance and add some bits and pieces to with a prompt...
Images:
(the first one was a self portrait that ChatGPT enhanced, which I already painted with me in a fantasy costume)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/00.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/77.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/11.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/22.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/99.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/33.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/44.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/55.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/66.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/88.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/aa.jpg)
Hey, @Matty the first one looks like me but my hairs curlier ???
Here is another one:
(https://mattiesgames.com/art/bb.jpg)
certainly @Matty's theme style mostly. Very might and magic.
Thanks mrmediamanx, glad you liked them.
Here's one more. I'm building a little b3d program that I can just switch on and off includes for various settings such as "include forest.bb" or "include town.bb" and it will put the relevant stuff there so I can then render out a scene, and upload it to ChatGPT to draw.
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/cc.jpg)
And another:
I've added a town include now.
Note this is not realtime. I simply create a 3d scene, fill it with stuff according to the include, render it out to a bitmap, save as jpg, upload to chatgpt and say "do your magic" and it enhances a very simple 3d render into this:
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/12.jpg)
And this one is telling ChatGPT "use your imagination and draw something based on what I've already uploaded today"
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/13.jpg)
and asking it to do some more "from its imagination and the renders I've supplied"
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/14.jpg)
@Matty Have you given meshy a go? https://www.meshy.ai/discover
It does tend to generate reasonable models, just requires a bit of tinkering.
I have done one or two meshes with meshy. When I have more cash available I'll pay for a subscription and try it more thoroughly.
A few more:
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/15.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/16.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/17.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/18.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/19.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/20.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/21.jpg)
I hope these are for the new game your working on :P
And another:
To be honest Baggey I have no idea what I'm going to do with these other than just look at them as 'pretty pictures'. If I could figure out a game from them, then maybe. Or a story.
(https://www.mattiesgames.com/ai/23.jpg)
Here is a story that ChatGPT built with me participating slightly:
https://mattiesgames.com/aistory/ (https://mattiesgames.com/aistory/)
And here are the above images in a randomised slideshow
https://mattiesgames.com/ai/ (https://mattiesgames.com/ai/)
Quote from: Matty on Jul 10, 2025, 06:11 PMHere is a story that ChatGPT built with me participating slightly:
https://mattiesgames.com/aistory/ (https://mattiesgames.com/aistory/)
And here are the above images in a randomised slideshow
https://mattiesgames.com/ai/ (https://mattiesgames.com/ai/)
Theres me again in chapter two without curly hair.
Thats a story not a game senario?
Baggey
I'm not healthy enough to write a game currently, even a simple story like this takes a lot out of me.
Quote from: Matty on Jul 10, 2025, 06:30 PMI'm not healthy enough to write a game currently, even a simple story like this takes a lot out of me.
I so sorry to here that. At least with the piccys etc.. You can keep the dream alive :D
if you were my neighbour id be picking your brains! :)
Kind Regards Baggey
I wouldn't use AI art for a game anyway. I mean, I might use it for reference images and such but not directly in a game.
Most of the joy of releasing a game is the knowledge that people are playing something that YOU created. And if you didn't really create it then is there any point? Why are you doing it?
Are you saying you've never purchased assets in any of your games? What's the difference? I do actually create the underlying image in Blitz3d using assets I've purchased and created, then ask ChatGPT to enhance them. So it's not entirely the AI tool's work, though a lot it is.
Here's some more:
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/24.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/25.jpg)
(https://mattiesgames.com/ai/26.jpg)
But to answer your question, why am I doing it (using AI art tools) - simply because I enjoy the pictures it creates. That's all. I like art. Fantasy art. Sci Fi Art. And it does a better job than I can at bringing my ideas to life.
Quote from: Matty on Jul 11, 2025, 12:59 AMBut to answer your question, why am I doing it (using AI art tools) - simply because I enjoy the pictures it creates. That's all. I like art. Fantasy art. Sci Fi Art. And it does a better job than I can at bringing my ideas to life.
I like the Sci-Fi fantasy art. I had a book full of it when i was a kid. Used to look at it for hours and imagine being in those worlds. Now you can get the art for free! Cool that.
Still we have RPG Dead Space, MAss effect, Halo just to mention a few. :D
Kind Regards Baggey
@Baggey - if you want to look at books of sci fi or fantasy art the Expose series is great although it's only sold in specialist bookshops and online - I have most of the first 12 or so editions. Another one is Spectrum (another art book) but this is less digital and more oil on canvas sci fi and fantasy art.
Then there's a tonne of books you can get that have your favourite games, such as those mentioned above, their concept art and other art - if you go to the right shops. They generally don't sell in your standard bookshops, you have to find some of the more unusual shops that cater especially to sci fi and fantasy content.
Ps...about trying out "meshy" .. paid for a month's subscription to do some more tests...damn thing won't download models I create in my browser. Waste of effing money, cancelled subscription immediately as as result. (models create/texture but the process hangs on pressing 'download' just sits there with the spinning wheel forever..waste of time and money)
Quote from: Matty on Jul 11, 2025, 06:17 PMPs...about trying out "meshy" .. paid for a month's subscription to do some more tests...damn thing won't download models I create in my browser. Waste of effing money, cancelled subscription immediately as as result. (models create/texture but the process hangs on pressing 'download' just sits there with the spinning wheel forever..waste of time and money)
Hey @Matty, You got to change that guy with the grey beard. To have wavey curly hair. You've got Baggey right there. :o