This is freakin awesome but do the creators even play chess? Playing chess from that viewing angle is unpleasant as hell.
Imagine putting all your work into creating an amazing demo and then drowning it with one design decision.
Edit: Ok I see that you can change the view in settings. They should make that option more visible.
There's plenty of places to play chess already so presumably the main idea is to show off the AI generated pieces and default to the 3D view because it looks cooler.
I wish I had read this comment before I closed the game I had spent 15 minutes on...
so when I first tried the demo I wondered, “are these pieces generated meshes?” thinking about the ability to zoom / pan the board in 3D. The high fidelity of the pieces would seemingly be more in the domain of 2D image generation given current gen AI standards, which would be my educated guess as to why there’s only a handful of views.
I'm pretty sure they're doing 2D image generation. Just look at the way it outlines some of the pieces.
No, it's 3D. It's some kind of automatic background removal. You can see this falling apart in my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42252127
That "outline" is just an artifact of less-than-perfect removal. Here's another one: https://imgur.com/a/zTQubPb
3D in what sense? You think they're doing actual mesh generation?
Misunderstood your comment. It is 2D as you've said, my above being evidence of that.
The AI gave me normal looking pieces and the opponent wild fruit baskets and stuff.
I was basically playing blindfolded chess
I still don't see the settings. Can anyone help?
gear icon next to the clock in bottom left -> board view -> switch to "flat"