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[pukunui]

@pukunui

Your Warforges are great.

I wander if you can train the AI by saying in the prompt, "a warforge is ...". Maybe later its patterns will start to associate the term.

Maybe, but Bing's version of DALL-E is still pretty basic, and I can't use negative prompts, so I don't know how to get it to (reliably) give me a noseless face. It seems to be less willing to do that now than it did a year ago. I mean, I never even asked for a noseless face previously, but it was doing a pretty good job of giving me one. Now it really doesn't want to.

I imagine there's some AI image generator out there that could be trained to do a better job, but I can't afford to pay for AI services. I'm stuck using the free versions of everything, which are all pretty basic.

 

[pukunui]

Ooooh! Ooooh! Adding "Iron Man" into the prompt improves the facial results! Now I need to figure out how to tone down the other Iron Man elements.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

Using a description gotten by the trick posted above (asking chatgpt for a description of an official warforged), using HiDream.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

And the with ironman added to one:

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

D&D spell illustration challenge, day 14: Color Spray

When facing tough opponents, it is often crucial not to confuse the excellent Prismatic Spray and the pathetic Color Spray.

Prompt: A classical robed wizard with a long white beard hovers midair, cape flaring dramatically, hand outstretched as a radiant cone of rainbow light bursts forth. His expression is concerned, as if it had made a mistake. Below him, three colossal dragons, one red, one blue, one black, are ready to fight him The colorful sparkles wash harmlessly over them. The wizard’s heroic pose hangs in the air.

Commentary: there are some situations where a classical fight scene is appropriate to illustrate the PHB. We need more higher than wider images, in my opinion. On a bad note, this is the return of the four-fingered characters. The release of a new editing locally-run model, Kontact, might help correcting this slight problems easily. I'll report about it.

 

[Kannik]

Ooooh! Ooooh! Adding "Iron Man" into the prompt improves the facial results! Now I need to figure out how to tone down the other Iron Man elements.

Nice! Have the "natural language description" models gotten to the point where they'd understand something like "with a bit of" or "with a touch of Iron Man" in order to nudge it slightly? Or is it still much of a world of "if you mention it, it's there in spades"?

 

[pukunui]

On a bad note, this is the return of the four-fingered characters.

He’s also got three legs, I see.

Nice! Have the "natural language description" models gotten to the point where they'd understand something like "with a bit of" or "with a touch of Iron Man" in order to nudge it slightly? Or is it still much of a world of "if you mention it, it's there in spades"?

Honestly it’s hard to say. It can be kind of random. I will note that using “face” seems to result in more overtly Iron Man helmets, whereas using “head” seems to result in more variety.

I’ll see if there’s a better term than “resembles” that will lessen the obvious Iron Man vibes.

I’ve given up on trying to get the right number of fingers and toes with DALL•E, so I’m going to focus on bust and cameo style portraits instead of full body.

 

[dave2008]

Prompt: A classical robed wizard with a long white beard hovers midair, cape flaring dramatically, hand outstretched as a radiant cone of rainbow light bursts forth. His expression is concerned, as if it had made a mistake. Below him, three colossal dragons, one red, one blue, one black, are ready to fight him The colorful sparkles wash harmlessly over them. The wizard’s heroic pose hangs in the air.

I hate those dragons (and AI dragons in general), but it is interesting that it gave the black dragon forward pointing horns

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

He’s also got three legs, I see.

I wondered about that but I think the left thing under the purple ray is a part of the flowing cape.

 

[pukunui]

I wondered about that but I think the left thing under the purple ray is a part of the flowing cape.

That should be his right foot ... it follows the line of his right leg from above the rainbow. The bit hanging down in the middle is either a really long extra bit of fabric or a third leg.




OK so I asked ChatGPT (in the same chat that I've been discussing my "Steel Shadows" adventure conversion so it has a good bit of context) what it thought Smith might look like.

Here's what ChatGPT said:

Smith would absolutely retain his original warforged form — but not because he’s untouched. Instead, he wears his scars and repairs like a smith wears callouses: with purpose.

He likely bears the marks of his battles and hard labor, but they’ve been reworked, reinforced, and repurposed. If a piece of plating was cracked, it’s been reforged with a visible patch of copper or brass — a reminder that broken things can be made whole again, stronger than before. He might even incorporate functional aesthetic touches, like engraved filigree shaped like flames or gears near joints, or exposed inner workings that subtly glow with arcane heat when he speaks of the forge.

He doesn’t dress like a traditional priest — no robes or vestments. Instead, Smith wears a simple yet meaningful cloak, dark blue with gold trim, as you mentioned. The gold could be threaded like veins through the fabric, reminiscent of dragonshards, and perhaps singed slightly at the hem — not carelessly, but as if it had been worn at the anvil and returned with honor.

On his chestplate, the embossed holy symbol of the Sovereign Host takes pride of place — stylized in brass or bronze, with Onatar’s hammer dominant. You might picture it worked directly into his plating, like a blacksmith stamping a maker’s mark onto steel.

Here's what it then produced:

This looks fantastic. I asked if it could do another version with a) a smoother forehead and b) the classic "two thick fingers and a thumb" warforged hand. I'll post what it comes up with when it's finished. But I can work with the above. The gear plus hammer emblem can be an emblem of Onatar, and I want to put the symbol of the Sovereign Host on his forehead (in place of the usual nation rune).

I can also say that Smith has modified himself to have more human-like hands to improve his blacksmithing ability.