WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

In case it's not obvious, this isn't a model, this is python scripts that call out to models (code not available).It's mostly "did you know you can attach an LLM to a PCG system?", but there is one idea here you don't see much of: an image model performs the composition (which image models are really good at), and then you extract the objects into 3d via things like SAM3D before placing them in the world, which is pretty interesting.The rest is standard stuff you'll find in your favorite PCG system/game engine. Still, think most people don't realize how good LLMs are at 3D these days, especially Fable 5 (which this project predates). reply: That’s exactly how I’ve used tools like Tripo and Meshy.Use any image generation tool (or any image) and have a multimodal LLM like Gemini extract individual parts of the image “isolate with a transparent background” - then you can use those images for image-to-3d in those tools.Don’t forget to use low or “smart” poly features otherwise you get too many vertices to the point you can’t performantly raycast etc.But yeah - it’s there.

It looks impressive. However open worlds are at their best with hand placed details and environmental storytelling. Look at Skyrim/Cyberpunk vs. Starfield where most of the world is proc gen’d.I get that you run this, and then edit it. But the generated villages just aren’t interesting in my opinion. It’s probably great for tencent’s market where you’re mass producing gacha style games, but I don’t think worlds made in this fashion will scratch the open world itch like the best open world games out there. reply: You know what's also good at storytelling? AI. Or else we wouldn't have writing awards being revoked when it comes out it was written by AI.I wouldn't say we don't need artists or writers, but I think most people will be surprised how quickly fully AI driven pipelines will advance here.

In both the Autumn and Winter examples in the hero images, the algo seemed to have placed buildings on the water in the foregroundIn the summer example in the hero images, the building placement + small pockets of water on the left looks odd and low attention to detail. A similar poor quality result as if an uncaring human used a scatter brush...Curious if the examples are cherry-picked and by how much, or if this is one-shoted reply: I am sure they are cherry picked. No one would spend time trying to publish results like this without picking the best results they possibly could to showcase.

This kind of content generation can be quite cool to enable new game ideas for indie developers that were only possible with AAA before. But it also makes it hard to gauge the amount of human work that went into the game. When you see an elegantly designed building, environment or easter egg in the game, was that really made by a human (or even prompted by a human), or did the AI generate it autonomously as part of a much larger generation step? reply: > When you see an elegantly designed building ...was that really made by a human or did the AI generate it as part of a much larger generation step?Does it matter? Why?

Interesting prompt to world pipeline. I wonder if there can be more style applied than just the "MMO cartoony" style? Like medieval Witcher or realistic Cyberpunk buildings? reply: I'm sure the answer is yes, even now there are pretty good model generators out there that can do realistic models. Experimental things like this just tend to go with cartoony styles since mistakes and lower quality (read: faster generation) can be chalked up to "lol", whereas realistic styles tend not to be forgiving with art mismatches and shading mistakes.In modern polished games, the art team spends a lot of time tweaking things to make sure it looks great and coherent. Most people are not willing to have their agent run for a month to do this work. I don't know if it's been tried yet but I would be really interested to see the result.

Unfortunately, code is not available.

Looks impressive, haven't looked at the code yet, I'll at night. reply: There is no code. The GitHub repo is empty.

The assets look good, but for some reason the terrain looks too cartoonish to me.

This looks so cool. Nice work :D

I hate to be an HN bikeshedder but why is everything "Claw" recently?