Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series
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I’m completely speechless. This looks so terrible I thought it was a joke, but apparently Nvidia released these demos to impress people. DLSS 5 runs the entire game through an AI filter, making every character look like it’s running through an ultra realistic beauty filter.

The photo above is used as the promo image for the official blog post by the way. It completely ignores artistic intent and makes Grace’s face look “sexier” because apparently that’s what realism looks like now.

I wouldn’t be so baffled if this was some experimental setting they were testing, but they’re advertising this as the next gen DLSS. As in, this is their image of what the future of gaming should be. A massive F U to every artist in the industry. Well done, Nvidia.

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    5 days ago

    It’s definitely changing more than the lighting. In the picture above the before picture shows a natural blonde and the after has brown roots

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      5 days ago

      Yes, the difference between hair in video game lighting and in actual chiaroscuro with the way light really works is going to be different.

      Here’s a painting from over a hundred years ago. The subject doesn’t have brown roots, but is in shadow. And a comparison image of the exact same hair in different lighting conditions.

      Performing complex lighting on individual hair strands is really expensive so in the base image you have a kind of diffuse lighting throughout the hair. With the DLSS 5 on, the distribution of light throughout the hair is variable leading to darker unlit strands underneath lit surface strands.

      Literally the only thing DLSS 5 is changing, literally in the technical sense, is the lighting. It’s just that lighting can have dramatic results in how the eye perceives what’s lit.

      And yes, the hair looks very different, but that’s how hair actually looks in mixed light and shadow (though a fair complaint with DLSS 5 is that it looks like it’s sliding the contrast unnaturally high).

      • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        That painting doesn’t look anything the same, and nor do those pictures. In the bride she’s a natural blonde. In the after she’s a bleach blonde