Hey guys, I'm NiceMark.
Today I have a quick video and also I invite
you to participate in the creation of the
sequel to this video.
I'll talk about it more at the end of the
video.
So what I have for you today is.. uhh..
"I told my computer to make Minecraft screenshots
look like other games"?
"Minecraft in the style of other games"?
I'm not quite sure how to call it.
And let's just jump into it straight away.
Here's a screenshot of small a town built
in Minecraft.
And here's a screenshot from Age of Empires,
a popular strategy game.
If we ask the computer what it thinks the
result from this should be.. we get this:
And this is, in my opinion, is amazing.
You can see the tavern, some of the houses,
and what I think was the church on the right
became a castle.
Now this is without any input from me.
I just gave the computer the first image and
I said, "I want the first image to look like
the second one" and it started working.
Alright, let's move on and see some more examples.
Before we proceed though, I need to cover
a few points.
First, don't forget to leave a like if you
like this topic.
It's unknown territory for me in terms of
content and I would like to know if you are
interested in this, so definitely let me know.
Second, I don't know the sources of the screenshots
- I took everything from Google Images.
And third, the images are not of the highest
quality.
The reason for this is that my GPU is not
able to produce that, I just have 4GB of video
memory and I need to double that to get better
results, so maybe in the future we can revisit
this topic and see what we get with better
hardware.
Okay, and now the next one.
We have a very nice castle and the game is....
Dark Souls III.
Very difficult game, but unique.
And beautiful landscapes.
For the image from the game we're taking..
Irithryll of course.
The result..
The castle got some of the features from Dark
Souls, not just in terms of the colors, but
the textures too.
Other than that, I'd say the atmosphere has
been transferred successfully.
The bad thing was the empty space on the left,
which ruins the image.
But if you ignore it, I think the result is
great.
Next up we have a large city.
With bridges, tons of various buildings, etc.
And I'll take Factorio as the style image
for this.
And here's what we get.
In my opinion, not good at all.
If you look at it, maybe you can guess that
it tried to make it look like Factorio because
of the color scheme, but that's it.
I'm gonna say the name of the game right away
- Knights and Merchants.
I think it's not likely that you know about
it, but if you do, let me know in the comments.
What we get from this is a mess though - the
landscape is generated over houses and you
can't really distinguish any particular building.
I think this is a great example of where human
input really could shine - separating different
types of objects could fix this problem.
I ran this one the other way around - from
the game to Minecraft, basically Minecraftifying
it.
Can you guess the game?
That's right, it's Red Alert.
A very quick and random one.
A Japanese temple with pink sakuras, and Sekiro.
Take a large Minecraft city with skyscrapers
and Simcity.
The result is a bit messy, but other than
that it does look like the game.
A village and Stardew Valley.
The grass has been transferred nicely as far
as I can see, but other than that it's not
very interesting.
I think the tree at the bottom also looks
more Stardew Valley-ish than Minecraft-ish,
I should've taken the source Minecraft screenshot
with more trees.
Modern city and..
Cities Skylines.
Just kidding, Stronghold.
A weird choice, considering that one is modern
and the other one is medieval.
I have 2 result images since I trained this
one for longer, and it's obvious that the
one that the computer worked longer on looks
better.
The skyscrapers turned into scary hives.
By the way, I'm sorry if I triggered your
trypophobia with this.
The less futuristic buildings look a lot better
though.
Looking at this is very inspiring - what if
you built your structures in Minecraft and
made your computer turn them into game textures
for a game that you're making?
There's not much detail yet, but it could
work, especially if you combine it with human
input.
And finally, this, and that, and the result.
The game is Zeus.
Not going to say anything about, I'll just
leave it for you to describe it.
Okay, and now, as I promised, the interactive
part: I want to ask you to look for a game
screenshot and a screenshot of something that
matches it in Minecraft.
It's better if the environment is the same,
the setting is the same (for example if there's
a castle in the game, there should be a castle
in Minecraft too).
Send me an email at games2mc@nicemarkmc.com
- the email is in the description.
In the email write how I should credit you
and the source of the screenshots.
Rename the source Minecraft image as
"source" and the target game image as "target".
And I'll run the neural network and post the
results somewhere, maybe as a sequel to this
video if there's a lot of good results.
That's that and this is basically it, thanks
for watching and I'll see you all later, bye
bye!
