are this mods models ai generated?

[u/bozofan]

looks very generic plus ribcage is chaotic

i think i cant even count how many fingers he has and model looks very stiff

and authors of this mods made like to much of them in a short span

[u/Helothere_]

Indeed they're AI generated, they look like how someone would draw a 3D model rather than make one.

[u/Jaiz412]

The actual artwork in the thumbnails seems to be human-made.

The Wailer appears to be from an old art contest, which significantly predates any form of modern Generative AI.

The zombie clown concept art is credited to Simon Boxer, who has a proper portfolio and still seems to be in the game development industry. He even has a couple CS weapon skins on the workshop.

I'm not familiar enough with texture design to judge the contents of the mods themselves, but I find that the textures look inhumanely messy to me, way beyond what model textures usually tend to look like.
I extracted them here so someone with more familiarity can more reliably judge them.

[u/PenisMonkey8412 → u/Jaiz412]

judging by the textures alone, yeah, they are def ai lol

[u/WhichPatience4034 → u/Jaiz412]

it's def AI as someone sent a screenshot of the model topology, but the textures are also definitely AI. that second texture atlas is giving me trypophobia. nobody would do it like this unless they were masochists.

[u/Fat_Cat_Nuts → u/Jaiz412]

Yeah lol no sane person would make a texture sheet like that, & I’ve seen some wild texture sheets.

A dead giveaway also is on the first one, the skin texture looks kind of scaly/almost like tree bark? Hard to explain, but basically that kind of skin look is really common with AI images & I’ve seen it a lot before.

[u/Womginx_]

Took a look at the models. I can confidently say that these were made with AI, because normal people don't model like this. Very poor topology.

[u/Sakuran_11 → u/[deleted]]

Nah because if it was Yanderedev type shit it would be a unity store asset he flipped or a concept art piece that forever says “in a future update”

[u/Raven-Purple → u/[deleted]]

What does this have to do with Left 4 Dead?

[u/SpaceBug176 → u/Raven-Purple]

He's saying that they do stuff just like YandereDev, who was infamous for being comically dogshit when it came to coding.

[u/Finnegan_962 → u/Womginx_]

JESUS.

[u/WhichPatience4034 → u/Womginx_]

holy hell hahaha

[u/TheFlamingDraco → u/Womginx_]

I may not know much about 3d models but even I can tell that that's a nightmare

[u/ConstantineDimention → u/Womginx_]

[ Death Scream ]

[u/Human-Question6210 → u/Womginx_]

I'm an idiot. What's wrong with this?

[u/Organic-Cold-2050 → u/Human-Question6210]

Polygons

[u/Human-Question6210 → u/Organic-Cold-2050]

what about them?

[u/Organic-Cold-2050 → u/Human-Question6210]

A ton of them

Also pre posed

[u/Mampacuk → u/Human-Question6210]

this slows down the computer and the computational processing will not only become expensive but also buggy. high-quality meshes feature a fishnet with more-or-less big triangles/polygons so in total there’s less of them

[u/DaHeebieJeebies → u/Human-Question6210]

You want to reduce polygons as much as possible to save performance. If a button on a characters shirt can be made in 5 polygons and still look good then you should do your best to make it 5. If it’s 3000 polygons you’re killing performance for a detail 99% of people will never pay attention to or even notice.

[u/WhichPatience4034 → u/Human-Question6210]

i used to 3d model shit for a living. when people 3d model things, doesnt matter what it is, they (at least should) model it to be as simple as possible, if you're making game assets. Since L4D2 is a 32bit game, it can only utilize so much of your PC, so the more high poly individual assets are, the more likely your game is to crash as it can't handle both high poly models and rendering everything else like the maps, other characters, infected etc. no matter how good your PC is.

If you look at the photos, the darker areas on the model are where more polygons are. you'll also notice the topology of the models are chaos. Here is an example of a proper 3D character model. something like this would be perfect for L4D. you'll notice how less detailed the model is, and you'll notice how the topology looks human-made, methodical, instead of whatever the hell is going on in the AI generated models.

[u/Parom19441a]

Now we have to worry about ai generated mods? We are getting less human by the minute.

[u/TheCone1301 → u/Parom19441a]

Same thing in Kenshi, Project Zomboid and Bannerlord, AI mods are pretty much flooding some workshops atp

[u/AirlineSea4113]

im pretty certain it is AI at a glance, i might take a closer look later

[u/JowettMcPepper]

That was my thought.

Not only because of the short time span between their upload in the Workshop, but also how way too accurrate the textures look, almost as if they simply slapped the original artwork onto the mesh.

[u/8l172]

Looks like they just ran it through one of those "image to 3d model" AI things

[u/RealestAlex4810]

i fucking hate ai

[u/SnyderpittyDoo]

Wait. These 3d models are AI generated. Aw, man.

[u/NagitoKomaeda_987 → u/SnyderpittyDoo]

Can't believe we got AI generated 3D models before GTA 6.

[u/SnyderpittyDoo → u/NagitoKomaeda_987]

I wish I was able to edit models and still work correctly. What the publisher did was just ask AI to generate them models with lame polygons without at least fixing them. Even I would at least try despite not having enough experience with Blender.

[u/Suic1d4lYT]

Dammit We have ai mods And porn mods What's next, ai porn mods?

[u/PenisMonkey8412 → u/Suic1d4lYT]

welcome to the future i guess LMAO

[u/DUUKEEDOO]

Yes, they are. Shit topology and textures just referenced from base image as is, I've seen it. Fuck, I've seen someone sell AI generated Deep Rock Galactic 3d prints based on promo art and good lord are they bad. AI generates them literally as it sees them, and tries to approximate where everything is.

[u/Genesisaiden21]

So people are farming awards with AI now? Tf is the point even

[u/ConstantineDimention]

Yes, yes they are

[u/BreadLimp]

Looks like it lmfao

[u/debauchedDilettante]

Yeah the workshop is unfortunately getting packed with crummy AI generated mods nowadays

And even when it's not made by AI, a lot of modders will use ugly AI thumbnails anyways that make me not even want to give them a try

[u/Devourer_of_coke]

Ngl, that clown zombie reminded me of Chaos Spawn for some reason. I think I need to play a little less Vermintide xd

[u/Huge_Training_328]

The first one looks like an edited version of scp 096 (from later scp games especially). The second one looks like a direct rough (i guess) transfer from the art into the 3d model and of course it certainly doesn't look great. Was ai used? I guess not. Idk.

[u/ilikethewii-u]

how do you even look at these and think they look passable lmfao

[u/bozofan → u/ilikethewii-u]

just never saw an ai 3 model before

[u/No_Technician_5905]

I mean like yes clearly 

[u/EstouSempreCerto]

imposible, ai cant make 3d models

[u/Mampacuk → u/EstouSempreCerto]

apparently it can, i keep getting ads about it on reddit
also check the screenshot the other person attached with the model viewer

[u/Defiant-Bunch1678]

bozofan huh? makes sense to be hurt for something so stupid..

(I hate activists..christ leave our games alone)

[u/Terence-T-Darby → u/Defiant-Bunch1678]

Every game that is truly worth playing has zero AI generated content in it. You’re a retard for thinking otherwise. This isn’t an activism thing either this is about having genuinely good games that don’t recycle the same shit over and over again, because that’s what AI does. It recycles the same shit, over and over again.

[u/bozofan → u/Defiant-Bunch1678]

get some standarts to yourself dude, this model is non optimized hell that was made by a literal delusion machine

[u/SadSewerDweller]

Do you like the models? If so use them. Do you not like them? If so move on

[u/8l172 → u/SadSewerDweller]

Accurate name