Update 4/24/2020

Just to update my millions of followers (that’s a joke), I’ve realized that the GAN wants all of it’s training data to be the same size, so that means the prefabs have to be resized before they can be used for training. This does allow for some tricks to increase the amount of training data available by taking the same prefab and making it slightly smaller or larger to produce a unique image for training. Scaling the 3D array of voxels is not as easy as I thought it would be as the existing array resize methods are not built for this specific task or at least that’s what I’m telling myself so I can justify writing my own code to do this. My first attempts were failures, and I’ve found it is difficult for a visual thinker like myself to comprehend the process, so I’ve made this webgl prefab viewer so I can see exactly what my code is doing:

webgl prefab viewer

If you have the game installed it will put the prefabs in the upper right corner so you can check them out. The web app uses flask on the backend so I can use all the python code I have so far. Currently, there’s no optimizations, so the larger prefabs are slow to both load and view. I know how to fix it, but until it becomes a real blocker I’m not going to worry about it. Ok, I’m off to work on my resizing code.

7D2D GAN Project Update

BEHOLDL! THE FUTURE IS HERE!

That’s an in-game screen shot of the first pregab generated by the current code, and it’s ok to be confused. Let’s be honest, that’s not going to help you survive a horde anytime soon. What this really means is:

A scaled-up example of the training data. The actual images are only 28×28 pixels.

The next goal post is to convert all the available game prefabs to training data images like the one above, re-train, and see what we get. The majority of challenges remaining with this project still exist, and to be honest, I am sure this project will not generate anything that even resembles a finished product for a long time, and that’s not tensorflow’s fault. However, I am planning on taking whatever reasonable action I can to make this a reality which probably just means emailing someone who actually knows how it works. If that’s all you have to do, why the heck not?

My super long long-term fuzzy warm feeling goal is creating a website called thisprefabdoesnotexist.com which works like this one: https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/. Good luck to me!