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Also interested in this, as well as creating custom NPCs. I looked through the Editor options in 1.7.0 and I see I can designate things about the custom NPC (Alexia). But I don't know how to actually add them to the game. Did some searching online, and I'm finding bits and pieces of stuff that may or may not be relevant anymore. Something about using Trellis for the sprites, another thing about generating art for the character. But nothing technical, like how to actually get said art/sprites in the game itself.

Is there a basic walkthrough anywhere? I can look up tutorials and put in the necessary elbow grease myself, I just need to know where to start. What tools, what order, etc.

Redips10 days ago

Ok, after finagling with the custom creator, I figured out how to actually get the Alexia NPC in the game and modify some of her settings. Still working on trying to figure out how to create a character file, which I assume contains the sprite and character art. Haven't had any luck on finding out how to do that yet.

Discam9 days ago

For a quick and dirty you'll need an image of the character you are going to use. If you don't have one, have an AI generate one for you using CivitAI Pony Diffusion v6 XL with the No Artist Style; Smooth 2, LoRa. If you don't care about style use Perchance furry generator. You'll want a full-body portrait in 2:3, around 2k resolution though it can be less, with a neutral pose, and a simple plain background for background removal.

Look online for a free 2d to 3d model converter to make a 3d mode of your character. You should get a .glb you can import during character creation for your directionals.

Use one of the many online tools to upscale your image, 2k-3k is fine, and remove the background, making it a .png file. Import the image and .glb and that's the bare minimum you'll need.

Redips9 days ago

Looks like I'm learning some new stuff in my free time, today! Thank you so much!

Discam8 days ago

No problem. I highly recommend using perchance's ai furry generator, making sure to use the ai prompt enhancer tool. Makes it look good, like 90% of the time, then go find some site to enhance/upscale the image and remove background. Much faster than learning civit.ai's tag prompt and hierarchy, and you only get so many tries a day while figuring it all out.

Crayshen8 days ago

If you’re already subscribed to NovelAI for text, it’s image gen is also not the worst thing in the world with the game, you can use a vibe file with the Silverpine art and the built in furry dataset and get some halfway decent results.

Redips8 days ago

I did take some time to register with CivitAI and give them a fair shot. I couldn't figure out the No Artist Style, Smooth 2, LoRa you mentioned earlier. Probably an additional filter I had to add on with the Add+ button, but couldn't find a perfect match.

I also took a look at perchance, too. Much simpler, and will probably be what I'm going to try moving forward. I barely started looking at 2D to 3D sites. Found a free one and it generated a model fully grey? Might've just been because it was free. I'll search around and try a few others later on. Thanks again for your help. You're awesome!

Discam8 days ago

I know exactly the issue you're having with Civit.AI, when selecting the LoRa be sure to be in the Create panel that opens on the side. Choose Additional Resources, No Artist Style should be the first one if you're using Pony Diffusion. At the bottom where it says Abstract Painting, it's a DROP DOWN, I had assumed it was specifically for abstract painting, but you can click on it and select Smooth 2 from there.

Try ai3dgen, it gives you a free use every day, no account, and looks like it comes colored. I didn't download from them because they messed up the model, but it's worth a try.

Redips8 days ago

Yup, that was the issue on CivitAI. I did see the dropdown earlier, but didn't realize I could scroll down further. Found Smooth 2 nice and easy, afterwards. I'll give ai3dgen a shot tomorrow. Thanks again!

Takeon5 days ago

If you're ever curious about the Silverpine's dev NPC creation process, it basically involves using Pony to generate an image of the character with 'anime' semi realistic settings, then TrypoSG to create a 3D model of the character with texture (There is a github for it online that teaches you how to set it up, you'd need to install a few things using CMD if you're on windows, notably Python libraries and such, takes some fiddling especially since you need specific versioning for it to work proper, possibly also setting up a virtual machine for it) once that's done, they took front, back, and side views of the character, and reduced their resolution to a rather low number I can't quite recall.

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