Gaming & cinema production has converged…..

Which promises to further democratize and even the playing field for those willing to learn. Today it’s possible to take a gaming computer and build 3D works that approach triple A titles and Hollywood films. Up until this point I’ve spent a lot of time on this substack dealing with theory and science, but starting today we’ll get serious. Specifically, how to go about building the next generation of content in a 3D environment for cinema, gaming, VR and AR. This is where the theoretical gets practical.

So with that, here’s the plan

* Learn creator tools to enter the metaverse as a creator:

* Simultaneous 3D asset creation for immersive, Cinema & Games

* Collaboration workflows for large teams of creators

* Learn home-based virtual production: Unreal engine with green screen & motion capture suit

* Learn to use & build AI tools to aid in creative process

* Agents for realistic NPCs

* Productivity tools

* Develop spatial decentralized apps

The goal is to learn the steps and develop a workflow that supports collaboration with the largest amount of artists which is paramount for the coming future. To this end, I have designed a workstation based on unreal and blender since they are the most stringent.

Computer stats

Gaming Chassis: Thermaltake AH T600 Full Tower E-ATX Gaming Case

CPU: AMD RyzenTM Threadripper 3970X 3.7GHz [4.5GHz Turbo] 32Core 64Threads 144MB L3 Cache 280W Processor

Motherboard: MSI TRX40 PRO WIFI ATX with WiFi 6, RGB, Dual LAN, 4 PCIe x16, 1 PCIe x1, 8 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA,PCIe

RAM System Memory: 64GB (16GBx4) DDR4 3200MHz Quad Channel Memory (Performance Memory by Major Brands)

Video Card: GeForce RTXTM 3090 24GB GDDR6X (Ampere)

Video Capture Card: Elgato 4K

Power Supply: 1,000 Watts

Primary Hard Drive: 1TB MSI SPATIUM M370 PCIe NVMe SSD + 3TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive)

Secondary Hard Drive: 2TB Samsung 870 QVO-Series SATA-III 6 Gb per second SSD - Read Write: Up to 560,530 MB per second

External Storage: 3 Samsung T7 2TB SSDs, 2 Sandisk Extreme Pro V2 4 TB NVMe™ SSD at 2000 MB per second

Monitor: Samsung 49" Odyssey G9 Gaming Monitor

Why this config?

The main drivers were speed and realtime raytracing/rendering. See puget systems website on building a system for Unreal for more information.

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