My GenAI take: Back in 2024, when @gamefromscratch asked @TimSweeneyEpic if Quixel Mixer was dead, I believed Epic was rebuilding it with Unreal tech. Unfortunately, it really was dead. Mixer was essential to my workflow, and I hoped it would become a serious competitor to Adobe's Substance tools. I've built a lot of personal use tools over the years but rarely had time to polish them for public use. From UE editor tools like procedural mesh conformation, world partition tile optimizer for world machine outputs(UE4 timeline because world partition tiles would have major visible seams from world machine if the tiles were too small. So I wrote a C# console tool that took larger tiles and divided them into smaller tiles).. All this to say, I never shared many useful tools I will always hold that AI should not replace actual programming knowledge and engineering experience. But using it to accelerate development on my own code? That's changed my perspective entirely. With AI assistance, I'm finally consolidating separate tools I made for myself after Epic shutdown Mixer into Vision Mixer, what I'd always hoped Mixer could become. Still a WIP, but progressing faster than I ever imagined. Here's a first look! #gamedev

Made some major progress on finalizing my XeGTAO integration into UE. Lightening the AO based on luminance which avoids super dark shadows while allowing detail in direct lighting.