I say no
Triggered by Chatgpt a few months ago, these tools are shooting up like mushrooms. I always wonder how this flood of tools came about all of a sudden. At first they never existed and as if there was a starting signal, they have become so numerous as if it were now easy to program something like this.
Even though this subject is extremely interesting to me, I have not delved into it. I can only imagine that many of these tools are based on others, quasi only “labled” their name on it.
In the past months I have dealt a little, with the most common tools. Of course I was very impressed by Midjourney, what can be created with it. Unfortunately, the use is not completely free of charge, and so I have not dealt with it further.
I have to create everything in my game myself. I can’t do it any other way, because there is a lack of crazy people like me in my circle of friends and relatives.
I say yes …
It’s actually the case that the ideas just bubble out of me. I record all my ideas in OneNote. That way I don’t forget anything and can also filter out ideas that aren’t so good. In the meantime I had the idea that some of the doors can only be opened by an ID card. So I quickly created another placeholder graphic, exported it to UE and wired the logic.
In Blender it came to my mind to make it a little bit more beautiful. Every ID card has a picture of the owner of the card. However, I am subterranean when it comes to drawing and so I came up with the idea of using an AI tool to create spaceship heroes.
… yes, but
Finally, I had the tool Bluewillow create a set of space heroes for me. I’m using them on my ID cards at the moment.
So, I realize that these tools can be very helpful, especially for lone wolves, but I will tag all images and graphics that have been created by an AI tool.
After all, in the credits of a movie, all the people involved who worked on the movie show up and I don’t want to adorn myself with other people’s feathers. At the end of the game, there’s still enough space for my ego.