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The annual Game Developers Conference is on in San Francisco. Obviously, the conference covers game development, hence the name. But they also cover a lot of things related to game development, game design, development frameworks, and Adobe. You may have not thought of as someone who had participated in GDC, but when you're designing games, you need to design the art. So Adobe is there showing off two new integrations for its design software suite. One of them is called text to texture, which can generate photorealistic textures from a text prompt. So scaled skin or woven hemp fabric. And then the texture could be applied to a 3D model. So the texture itself is 2D, but you need to make something look a certain way in some fabric or somebody's skin that you're working on in a game. You can apply it to that 3D model. The other one's called generative background, kind of does the same thing for backgrounds. You type in some text, and it makes the image in a way that can be used for a 3D scene. So one of the examples they gave in their demonstration was abstract wave swirl with magenta blurred ribbon. It was a longer than that actually, but that gives you the idea. Then it creates a 2D background that can be adapted.