Finally got some tomatoes planted. Dug out some room in my raised bed and it was full of insects like pill bugs and worms. Dirt looked black and rich. Pretty good for cheap menards dirt + my compost, play sand, and any left over additives I had.
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A short update for anyone who is interested since I've been pretty quite this week.
It's been crazy busy at work, so I haven't had much time to work on things and post like I normally do.
I've also been chatting with a friend who's working on a book. We're looking into developing a TTRPG system out of his book series as time goes on. So I'm working on the RPG side and he's writing his book. The first part is the Magic System and how magic will work in the game since magic is extremely important for the book series.
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One last thing, I've posted a few AI prompt breakdowns. If anyone is interested in sending me prompt ideas, just let me know and we can see what we can make.
This is one of the most true statements I've ever seen. As someone who has completed 10yrs of college, I agree with it completely.
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My cats get it all fresh from the garden. I haven't thought of air drying it
First fire this spring with the family
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I'm currently working on planetary images that aren't Earth. It can be difficult since AI defaults to our own planet.
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#worldbuilding
#books
#dungeonsanddragons
#fantasy
#marcusfwc
#fantasyworldcreations
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Prompt:
a spherical planet, the planet is covered in green forests where there should be oceans, the continents are plains with very few mountains, there are no visible bodies of water, the planet has one moon orbiting it:: background is black space filled with stars::1.2 sharp detail, hd, 8k --q 2
You'll notice, in this post I use the symbols for weights (::). Just using (::) gives the text before it a weight of 1. Anything after the (::) will have a weight of what you assign it, for this prompt I increased the end of the prompt to 1.2, giving it slightly more weight in the image.
So I want to give more weight to the background having black space with stars.
Here's a brief post on character poses. Mainly using "reference" in you prompt.
If you add "reference sheet" or "reference pose" you can get different angles fir your characters.
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#characterdesign
Dwarven brewmasters, the greatest of all the alchemists who work with spirits.
Okay, let's do a little #nostrafterdark with slighlty more adult AI images. But really, they aren't that adult, but they're about as "adult" as I'm going to make using Midjourney. And I have no interest in posting porn on Nostr.
But, as they say, Sex Sells. So here I'm going to show off about the extent of Midjourney's ability to create adult themed images. As I mentioned in my last post, Midjourney has quite a few restrictions, so I was surprised that I was about to get as far as I was. For anyone who will be looking to do the same in Midjourney, be warned, you need to "upscale" the images off the grids before leaving discord or Midjourney automatically removes them. They'll still be available on your personal midjourney page, but they'll be dropped from discord and you can't adjust them after that.
So, here we go.
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Prompt:
3d image d&d elf ranger in fantasy tight elven string-bikini, female, athletic female superhero muscular arms legs and torso exposed, black hair and blue eyes, long pointed ears, standing near waterfall, HD, sharp lines, line detail, full body image --quality 2 --aspect 3:5 --no weapons --stylise 500 --niji 5 --uplight --q 2 --s 250 --v 5.1
Now, for these images, the defining aspects that allow it to be more "adult themed" are the descriptors "string-bikini" and "arms legs and torso exposed".
***Point of interest, "string-bikini" has now been banned just in the last 24 hours but "bikini" is still usable. Just stupid really***
Also, using --niji gives it a more "anime" style, which appears to give more leeway to the prompt and better overall appearance when mixed with the "3 image" than trying these with the --niji option.
No problem. I think AI can be a powerful tool, so spreading knowledge is always good.
Happy lunchtime everyone! It seems from my post last night that some people are interested in how I generate my images, so I'll be posting some images here and adding the prompts and what they do.
First up, is a line art style image. I do all of my AI generations through Midjourney, mainly because I like a lot of the styles they support and I have discord on all my devices so I can play with it anywhere I have access to the internet.
The downside to Midjourney is that they have a number of restricted words. You obviously can't do porn, especially since all their images are available on their site, but they also restrict certain levels of violence. Unfortunately, they are also fairly restrictive on anything that "approaches" sexual behavior. This includes wanting images of busty women (either realistic looking or various styles of illustrations). This is annoying because the same doesn't apply to men. I can get a 95% nude, ripped, barbarian man with rippling muscles, but if you want a woman with anything more than a fully covered B-cup, well good luck cause you probably won't get it (unless you know how to finagle the AI, which I kinda do, more on that for #nostrafterdark ). Unfortunately this means that some of the words will bleed into other definitions, like the word "Chest", so you couldn't get a treasure chest for a long time, now you can.
But I'll work through some posts and explain what they mean.
Prompt:
strawberry blonde d&d elf ranger, female, athletic muscular frame, black and white line art with soft shading, long pointed ears, HD, sharp lines, line detail, full body image --quality 2 --aspect 3:5 --v 5.1 --no weapons
1. Strawberry blonde D&D elf ranger, female, athletic muscular frame, full body image, long pointed ears.
These are going to describe the image I want. You'll notice this is a black and white image and I have "strawberry blonde", well, I was just copy/pasting a previous prompt and adjusting the styles. Sometimes describing a color in the prompt will "bleed" into a black and white image. So watch your prompts.
I specify D&D elf because that is a particular style that AI will look at. If you just put "elf" it may not come out as you planned. In this image, it ignored the prompts for elf and long pointed ears. That happens, but since the hair covers the ears, it can be easily ignored.
You can adjust the description of your image in almost any way you can think of. I've read that Midjourney puts higher weights on descriptions earlier in the prompt that later, or that repeating something can increase it's weight. I cannot confirm that for you. There is a weigh to control the "weight" of a part of the prompt and that is by using a double colon "::" and then puting a number after it. Positive numbers increase its importance, negative numbers decrease importance.
Using "::" can have really big effects, so be careful.
2. HD (high definition), black and white line art with soft shading, sharp lines. (line detail was a typo but it seems to have been ignored, so no harm).
These are the styles I want the image done in. I wanted line art with soft shading to give it the feel of a hand drawn image, but with sharp lines so it looks more finished. I could have specified almost any way of illustration or photography. HD wil give it better clarity, as high definition often does in other ways.
I have seen prompts, and made them, where this is a very long section depending on what you want. You can specify specific artist styles as well. If you go back through my images, you'll see a few I labeled as being inspired by Joe Jusko (who did the John Carter of Mars book illustrations). If I add a specific artist the AI will mimic that style.
3. --q 2 (quality 2) --ar 3:5 (aspect ratio) --v 5.1 --no weapons
These are midjourney specific qualifying terms, I'm sure other AI have their own.
--q (quality) is what quality you want. Without adding this, the quality is baseline 1, but you can increase that.
--ar (aspect) is the aspect ratio - so width x height. This can make a big difference. I specified earlier "full body image" so I need a "tall" image to accomodate. so I used an ar of 3:5. 3 units wide, 5 units tall. If you want a scenery piece, then wide may be better than tall. But if you want a tall image and give it a wider aspect, it will cut off the top of the image.
--no - this specifies something you don't want. I put "--no weapons" because the word "ranger" automatically inspires swords and bows. AI weapons mostly suck right now.
--v 5.1 this is the version of midjourney I wanted. 5.1 is the newest and is now standard, but it wasn't initially. And I can regress to versions 1-5.0 easily enough.
The version, as well as other functions, can be accessed using "/settings"
What if the bots get so good they don't realize they're battling other bots?
I can go into more depth on how these images are created certainly
It's the old phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words"
I do create worlds. I just find that people are drawn by images far more than text. Heck, my images with little bits of backstory barely get looked at here.
If I'm trying to create a character, I often go for simple or white backgrounds. Mostly, this is so I can use the picture more easily in another AI generation or photoshop can be usedbto cut the image out and paste in another.
I know I put up a lot of AI generated images. Do you want to see more AI work and do you want me to add the prompts and explain them?
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strawberry blonde d&d elf ranger, female, athletic muscular frame, style of DC comics, long pointed ears, HD, sharp lines, line detail, full body image --quality 2 --aspect 3:5 --v 5.1 --no weapons
Wasn't going for superheroes initially but turned out well.
A few more Superhero types from over my vacation. These came out with the feel of a Supermanesque alient race. Some type of advanced society with powers not found on other world.
Fun little process
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#comics
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