D&D General AI Art for D&D: Experiments

[Thomas Shey]

2: Swords and daggers are often ok. they will have problems with specific types. Things like simple quarterstaffs are more hit-and miss. Spears are often very problematic (at least on Lexica.art). Bows are problematic if you know anything about bows (but then humans drawing them often tend to mess up as well when drawing someone actually using the bow, so not too surprising.)

I'd suspect you have the answer generally there; probably the material they've been trained on has enough decent samples of simple blades that it can spit out something decent, but it gets much more hit or miss with other weapons because the samples are less frequent and/or less good.

Things I haven't been able to get any engine to do is having a vampire actually biting someone else. Blood is questionable. and if you use an online engine, it will often refuse to draw something it thinks is "spicy".. Even if it is nothing in the description for that. And they sometimes react that way on a prompt that you have used before without problems. The free version of Chatgtp was really bad on that, and well I managed to get my account there banned. I think I figured out what it reacted to that got me banned. Never managed to get it unbanned, as the supportmails just seemed to go into the void, and no human looked at it.

That's of course an intrinsic problem; with the publically accessible ones there are going to be things that even people halfway trying to follow the law and/or ethics will have tried to block, and its going to be hit or miss how it reads those.

 

[overgeeked]

No matter which engine I have used, I have found that you often need to generate a number of images to get something you like.

If you're looking for something extremely specific, yes. What's worked for me is letting go of the need for precision. It doesn't need to be exactly what I want. Close enough is good enough. I stopped fighting the generators a long time ago and pushed them towards an art style that can cover a lot of mistakes. A little abstract instead of going for realism and you're set. I'm happy enough with the results that I generally don't need more than 4-8 images to have 4-8 images that I really like. If you're wondering what I mean, just search this thread for my other posts.

And sometimes it will just plain ignore what you write. even if you are very specific.

Yeah. There's some kind of keyword nonsense going on that just stops certain things from working. I've tried to make WH40k-style orks, only for it to show me space marines with tusks. The only reasonable response, I think, is to shrug and move on. To me that's far better than trying to force the thing to do exactly what I want. It's just not worth the time.

 

[TorgoTheWhite]

No matter which engine I have used, I have found that you often need to generate a number of images to get something you like. And sometimes it will just plain ignore what you write. even if you are very specific.

1: It depends. The engines seems to prefer the person just standing there. And interaction with other beings are often so-so.

2: Swords and daggers are often ok. they will have problems with specific types. Things like simple quarterstaffs are more hit-and miss. Spears are often very problematic (at least on Lexica.art). Bows are problematic if you know anything about bows (but then humans drawing them often tend to mess up as well when drawing someone actually using the bow, so not too surprising.)

3: not sure I understand the question. I have found that different engines will react on certain keywords. So for example my Scion-character, she has intense emerald green eyes. If I don't specify anything else, then Lexica.art for example will then draw her in green clothing. Z-Image Turbo made her look Asian (here the trigger was the use of intense/emerald. if I didnd't include any of those words it worked. Funny thing was that when I asked it to also include another character that was a goth girl, it came out ok, even if those words were included.)

Things I haven't been able to get any engine to do is having a vampire actually biting someone else. Blood is questionable. and if you use an online engine, it will often refuse to draw something it thinks is "spicy".. Even if it is nothing in the description for that. And they sometimes react that way on a prompt that you have used before without problems. The free version of Chatgtp was really bad on that, and well I managed to get my account there banned. I think I figured out what it reacted to that got me banned. Never managed to get it unbanned, as the supportmails just seemed to go into the void, and no human looked at it.

Boy that censorship would bother me, I want my barbarian holding that severed head trophy, but its not a deal breaker.