Activision is open-sourcing one of the biggest Call of Duty maps ever for AI development and to "expand the knowledge base of the gaming industry"
A massive data set has beღe💧n pulled from the Warzone map Caldera

Activision has shared an open-sou📖rce data set compiled from Call of Duty: Warzone's Caldera map for non-commer💞cial use.
The "near-complete" geometry of the Caldera map is now available on . The 4 GB data set includes more than five million meshes, 28 million primitives, more than one-billion-point instances, "which can also represent 💮scene metadata su🍰ch as volumes that we use for lighting processing," as well as in-game character pathing and time samples showing how players behave on the map.
Caldera isn't available in Warzone anymore, but it remains one of the biggest and most complex in the entire Call of Duty franchise's history,✤ and it's also the first major asset in the series' history to be open-sourced. Activision's aim is multi-pronged; the publisher hopes the data set will be a valuable res♔ource in academia and training, support AI development, and speed up the evolution of authoring tools.
"This initiative represents Activision’s commitment to innovation and growth in multiple fields, including AI learning, within the communities of ඣacademia and research, while propelling the advancement of game development," the company said. "It brings to life the colossal and carefully crafted map that was home to many epic brawls in Call of Duty: Warzone and is production-proven and battle-tested."
Caldera's release to the open-source community will have a ripple effect that goes beyond Call of Duty and even the video game industry. In a press release, the chief technology officer of Disney's Pixar said the data set "marks a significant milestone for the industry," adding, "this initiative not only paves the way for groundbreaking research in environmental geometry and scene construction bu💧t also exemplifies the collaborative spirit essential for innovation in our field.
"By making such data available, Activision is empowering developers and researchers alike to explore new frontiers in 3D rendering and simulation, ult🌌imately enriching the creative process across the board."
In a , Activision said the data set can be used by students, educators, and professionals for training, demonstrations, and experimentation. It also said the release will support AI dev♛elopment by providing a playground to facilitate the training of AI models and help evolve authoring tools by testing them agains💧t complex geometries and environments.
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For its own part, Activision fellow software engineer Michael Vance said "innovations that come from this data set release could give more freedom and flexibility for our content teams to find the most engaging scenarios for our players," and they could even pave the way for game files that take up less hard drive space. "We are exciꦛted about what the academic community will produce based on Caldera and look forward to seeing new techniques that we💞 could never have imagined."
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