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I just added 3D low-poly model generation to Retro Diffusion! Create super high quality low poly models with pixel art textures in minutes. Then animate them however you want with just a prompt! Check it out on the site and the API/MCP!

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Luke Simpson, Music Man and Superhero (probably)1 month ago

this is very neat

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Astropulse1 month ago

Omg thats so cute

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Astropulse1 month ago

Here's just a handful of the gens I've done while testing:

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Astropulse1 month ago

And this insanely cool minecraft style steampunk machine!

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Astropulse1 month ago

You can use it here:

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🇵🇹 Ninja Dynamics1 month ago

Does it do only Minecraft style or can it get to PS1 level as well?

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MACO | ⭐️1 month ago

This is amazing! I've been following you many months or even years ago I think and I'm super happy you're getting bigger bigger and better!

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Astropulse1 month ago

Always got more to build haha

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💤1 month ago

Testing it out now. It even has the texture atlas and export options wtf haha

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Astropulse1 month ago

Yep! It's the whole kit haha

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Cyanide Ember1 month ago

This is the sort of thing I'd pay to run locally but not the sort of thing I want to be paying per gen on. To be honest, that holds for basically any AI my hardware is powerful enough to run.

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Astropulse1 month ago

Yeah your hardware isn't powerful enough to run this I promise- It's using claude opus 5.5 and almost nothing else works. GPT6 Astra is close- but still not as good. Totally get the local angle, but honestly, if you want the cutting edge then cloud compute is the only way.

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Cyanide Ember1 month ago

Based on what I've seen in the progress of other generative 3D models the turn around time from cloud-only to 'we optimized it and now it runs on 12gigs' is about 1 year, so...

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g0ldy1 month ago

fastest shipper in the west BABY!

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Astropulse1 month ago

Thats me lmao

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M1 month ago

Nice! @kalin_t you might use this for art

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The Bestower1 month ago

This is insane! I was looking for a low poly model generator but stuff like meshy sucks 😅 gonna try this out

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Astropulse1 month ago

Lol yeah I used meshy once and never again

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Zeke Chan@Solo Indie Web Gamedev1 month ago

Is this real? Amazing! Anything in particular you found really difficulty to create with this 3d update?

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Astropulse1 month ago

Not really. I have tried a bunch of stuff and it just works. Some things are hard to represent in the art style like really smooth stuff but thats a limit of the medium not the tool

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Zeke Chan@Solo Indie Web Gamedev1 month ago

Alright looking forward to try it out

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Dasani1 month ago

whoa!

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Astropulse1 month ago

😎

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Luke Simpson, Music Man and Superhero (probably)1 month ago

Yeah baby

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dnformr1 month ago

... How quickly did you just release this 🫪😂

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Astropulse1 month ago

About 13 hours

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dnformr1 month ago

The kind of things that can now be done with this are great, actual pixel accurate low poly models

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Jonny D1 month ago

this is such a level up very cool bro

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Astropulse1 month ago

Ikr its crazy

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Rife1 month ago

Bravo. If this was around a month ago, I might be working on a very different game right now.

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Bits1 month ago

looks fire, watching you ship this in a day was crazy

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Astropulse1 month ago

Hahaha when the obsession gets me it doesn't let go

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Moglord1 month ago

👀

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Brad Mills 🔑⚡️1 month ago

This might just be amazing…

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Astropulse1 month ago

Oh it is amazing

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Marcus1 month ago

Wow this looks phenomenal

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Farlinno, Deandro1 month ago

Bro 🤝

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James1 month ago

so cute!

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Bryant1 month ago

This is going to unlock a bunch of fun. I’ll have to give it a spin. What’s pricing like?

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Astropulse1 month ago

Depends on size, 16^3 volume is $0.25, 32 is $0.50, 64 is $0.85, etc

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0zkBrewer1 month ago

Damn, this looks good!

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flashfork1 month ago

You just shipped a major service feature in less than a day my man, this is crazy cool! Congrats

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Astropulse1 month ago

Yeah! To be fair I've been thinking about how to make this work for months, all just clicked into place today.

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Curiouser llc ✡️1 month ago

Duuuuuuuude! 🥲

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Astropulse1 month ago

Haha thanks 😂

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Francois Laberge1 month ago

Wouldn't like hardcore cubes only based 3D be more on brand? Like all meshes are made of cubes and textels are aligned to them, maybe can be some 2x2, 3x3, extra detail. Still supporting boned animation though. These look great though.

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Astropulse1 month ago

It does those too! It's a style option :)

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Francois Laberge1 month ago

Yeah those come through pretty close to the style. Seems a little not quite texel/mesh aligned, but with this art style it seems fine. Awesome product!

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rilosk1 month ago

literally saw your tweets(X-es?) experimenting with this earlier today, thats some insane iteration speed

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Astropulse1 month ago

I've got a pretty solid programming setup :) One I've got a solid enough idea, executing is easy.

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Joe Hsu1 month ago

pretty close! from pixel art I made, Shin from Dorohedoro

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Russ Wonsley1 month ago

Huge! Congrats!

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Astropulse1 month ago

Thanks! It's so exciting! Can't wait to make a game with it.

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安叫兽|Bird🕊️ 🔶 BNB1 month ago

有点想拿它做一群走路歪歪扭扭的小怪

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Omid1 month ago

@grok compare the price of generating models with @RealAstropulse vs @MeshyAI and @tripoai

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Llama1 month ago

Is this something we can self host or is it a monetized project? Very interested, but also very poor for hobby funds lol

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zEmerson 🌊1 month ago

After that, i'll sign up for my next game assets. This is rly huge and nice!

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🪓 CyberAxe (Jeremy Benisek) 🪓1 month ago

you can't even do 1 gen for 0.5. It's 0.85 to even see a test.

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Astropulse1 month ago

If you set the size smaller its cheaper. 32^3 is $0.50, 16^3 is only $0.25. It's an expensive model to run. Just kinda how it is with 3d gen and pixel art. Low poly actually makes it more expensive because each decision it makes matters more to the overall shape.

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🪓 CyberAxe (Jeremy Benisek) 🪓1 month ago

How are normies, designers, modding devs going to know waht 32^3 means Is this a minecraft/hytale or blocky standard? I have 17k hours in addons and mods and have no idea what you're telling me here.

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Astropulse1 month ago

Brother it's a volume measurement. Like in geometry. 32x32x32 pixels. That's the space the model occupies.

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🪓 CyberAxe (Jeremy Benisek) 🪓1 month ago

oh I see.

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