Dark World Dreams

Trigger is dw01-3400, but if you rename the .safetensors file you can change the trigger to whatever you want.

e.g.

rename dw01-3400.safetensors to darkworld.safetensors and the trigger becomes darkworld.

This embedding produces trippy/psychedelic/dreamlike results with a night-time vibe.

I've included a gallery showing the effect of with/without the embedding.

The TI will default to a green/purple color palette. If that’s not to your taste, add a color term to your prompt such as “warm color palette”, “pastel color palette” or “triadic colours”.

Tendencies for this TI:

twilight/night/sunset/sunrise

biological rather than technological

glowing dots/bumps/nodules

jellyfish/toadstool type domed shapes

fantastical/magical creatures and plants

auras, halos, auroras, and other glowy things

Adding words such as “glowing”, “vivid”, “magical” and so on will reinforce the embedding.

It's overpowered for short prompts - you really need to be over 20 tokens for controllability. The TI itself is 8 tokens. You can weight it up or down in a1111 webui - I found that weights from 0.5 up to 1.5 were usable. However... I found weighting in a1111 v1.6 and v1.7 to be inconsistent, so I tend to move the TI trigger left or right instead:

nearer the start of prompt = stronger effect

nearer the end of the prompt = weaker effect

A simple prompt that gives some nice images:

a magnificent creature running in a magical landscape, very detailed, intricate, dw01-3400, warm colour palette

For the negative prompt with this TI, I use either nothing or:

toy, replica, scale model, (signature), logo, ????, ?????, nudity

CFG: I’ve had good results from 5 to 12.5.

Model: Mostly I use Crystal Clear XL

https://civitai.com/models/122822/crystal-clear-xl

Sampler: mostly tested with DPM++ 2M Karras at 30<--->50 steps, but all the DPM++ samplers gave decent results.

Hires fix: generally I have this on to get more detail in my gens. Usually Latent (nearest-exact), Hires steps = 30, Denoising strength = 0.7. Typically, I upscale by 1.25 or 1.5.

As is usual with Stable Diffusion, changing scale and/or aspect ratio can produce widely varying results!

My aim was to make a TI that produces twilit/night-time dreamlike scenes and entities.

The training set was fully synthetic, generated with SDXL using several LoRAs in combination. Mostly, I used:

Bas Waijers (Art Style) [SDXL]

https://civitai.com/models/180508/bas-waijers-art-style-sdxl

Hieronymus Bosch Creatures + Cracked Paint Style

https://civitai.com/models/188256?modelVersionId=211408

Only black. SDXL

https://civitai.com/models/126450/only-black-sdxl