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Re:BlenderGPT by idiocache on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:16PM (#42401068)
Kid's getting way too much hate for what seems to be quite a cool project! Oh he "just" put a UI in front of Trellis? Yes. He did. You didn't.

Keep up the good work, gd3kr :)

Re:BlenderGPT by ramon156 on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:29PM (#42401214)
I get your point, but it's annoying because the creator didn't specify this anywhere. If you look at a project like CodeBuff, its explained what the tool is made with.

OP didn't even check the Blender licensing, why would I respect such a barbones attempt at a project? At least be honest that it's just an interface with trellis.

Re:BlenderGPT by vunderba on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:37PM (#42401949)
Give me a break.

The site's ad copy: "BlenderGPT is an advanced artificial intelligence program that creates 3D models from text or image prompts in ~20 seconds. It lets you synthesise fully textured meshes, then import directly to Blender with a shortcut or download the source files for use in any compatible software. We think it's really good, try it out for free now."

It's very deliberately posing itself as having their own proprietary algorithm, as opposed to just a wrapper around TRELLIS, whose team did the real work. There's nothing wrong with that, but not giving any credit or mention to the trellis team is in poor taste.

Re:BlenderGPT by pkkkzip on Thursday December 12, 2024 @02:57PM (#42402761)
I can definitely see why people were upset but I think they are reading a bit too much into it. We all know its a wrapper now but makes little to no difference in reality.

What I'm more disappointed in is that BlenderGPT aka TRELLIS is still not capable of producing truly segmented 3d mesh. The generated output is simply just a blob and not capable of replacing actual 3d modelers (yet).

I've already seen so many claims of being able to generate 3D but they have fallen short of expectation (including BlenderGPT/TRELLIS). Without segmentation, mesh optimizations, there is limited use.

We are so close but because everybody is chasing investment dollars they gloss over the ugly bits and even after 20 months of watching this space there has been little progress.

The true golden chalice of 3d mesh generation is a fully segmented, optimized mesh, UV texture map/material generation and pre-rigged. It appears we are far far away from it still as many FANG/Deepmind or large game engines should be the first.

Unfortunately until then we are stuck with investor dollar grift wrappers on open source products. Not just in 3D but across all domains that AI touches.

Re:BlenderGPT by bn-l on Thursday December 12, 2024 @05:00PM (#42403872)
I didn’t know until reading the comments
Re:BlenderGPT by pixelpoet on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:55PM (#42402124)
You even fixed their typo on "its".
Re:BlenderGPT by latenightcoding on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:41PM (#42401974)
Nah, this shouldn't be on the front page. Blender is a registered trademark (I only clicked because I thought it was project from the Blender team) and OP is not transparent about this just being a wrapper.
Re:BlenderGPT by dogboat on Thursday December 12, 2024 @09:55PM (#42405589)
Oh yeah blendergpt is a bad name unless blender refers to a food processing gadget and AI is controlling that.
Re:BlenderGPT by Fauntleroy on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:42PM (#42401986)
Using "Blender" when not associated with "Blender" at all is a huge dick move.
Re:BlenderGPT by senectus1 on Thursday December 12, 2024 @09:49PM (#42405561)
yeah, I 100% agree with this.
Re:BlenderGPT by tripplyons on Saturday December 14, 2024 @03:50PM (#42419343)
Also, even though GPT is not trademarked, it is probably best to leave it out of any non-OpenAI product names.
Re:BlenderGPT by xnx on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:45PM (#42402016)
Making a thing and sharing it is definitely worth supporting.

Obvious credit should be given to the source of the core functionality of the project (e.g. "Powered by TRELLIS") and using "Blender" in the name was a bad idea.

Re:BlenderGPT by dogboat on Thursday December 12, 2024 @09:53PM (#42405576)
:) now I will ha ha. There is value in UI just as there is value in a corner store reselling milk. Not everyone needs to be a cow.
Re:BlenderGPT by loliver666 on Friday December 13, 2024 @07:40AM (#42407983)
I dont think he's getting enough hate for using AI to do traditionally creative work. Thanks for making the future worse asshole.