A patent filed by EA again in April 2020 (and subsequently authorized in October 2021) reveals AI expertise that may very well be utilized in The Sims 4 sport to show photos of individuals into in-game characters with simply two clicks.
As reported by Sims Community, the patent itself discusses the AI expertise, explaining that it'll permit gamers to add pictures of themselves or characters, which might then be transformed into an correct Sim. Whereas the primary Sims sport allowed you to position a picture of a face onto a personality mannequin in Sims Creator, the outcomes usually left one thing to be desired. This AI tech might show to be a simpler manner of truly creating your likeness inside the sport, although there are not any examples accessible proper now to point out off its capabilities.
The tech was developed by a workforce of builders and lead by Igor Borovikov, who beforehand labored on The Sims 4 in addition to older titles like The Sims 3 and The Sims Medieval.
It will additionally appear that alongside facial options, the tech will be capable to generate the total physique of your characters from photographs, with strains inside the patent stating "the method comprises: receiving an input image of a reference subject; processing the input image to generate a normalized image; identifying a set of features present in the normalized image, wherein each feature in the set of features corresponds to a portion of a head or body of the reference subject".
Unsurprisingly, EA owns the patent outright so we'll have to attend and see in the event that they're completely satisfied to share the tech with different video games that embody character creation. It additionally is not clear if this can be applied in The Sims 4, which is predicted to have recent content material churned out for a couple of years but, or if improvement is much sufficient away for this to make its first look in The Sims 5.
Opinion: Taking the enjoyable out of the sport
(Picture credit score: henrysradiator / EA)AI character technology does sound petty neat, however I've my doubts on how a lot the characteristic will really get used when it is applied. In any case, if you happen to discover character technology to be a bore then you definately're not more likely to be the target market for The Sims franchise.
The Sims has a wealthy modding neighborhood constructed off the again of how individuals wish to customise their characters and environments, so an automated 'character creator' may very well be enjoyable for one or two makes use of, however I see this being shelved by a lot of the devoted participant base. It is unclear if the tech will be capable to make the most of mods too, which might limit its enchantment to avid gamers who solely use the vanilla sport content material.
I'll completely use it to see how an AI thinks a Sim model of myself would look in-game, and there are a number of devoted followers of actors and musicians who can be eager to scan members of BTS or Timothée Chalamet into the sport as neighbors and housemates.
However an enormous enchantment of enjoying simulation video games is the work that goes into them. Making issues 'simpler' does not really feel prefer it suits, however I am ready to eat my phrases on that. If it really works properly, then I would kill a couple of hours utilizing the characteristic to show my neighborhoods right into a celebrity-filled utopia, however I will actually return to creating my very own, overly modded characters after that will get tiresome.
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