stable diffusion simple wildcards

? Wildcards Collection for Stable Diffusion

Wildcards in this collection are mainly created for realistic scenes with people. Hoever, they can be used for other types of art as well. They will give you inspiration and boost your creativity.

Since I work with these Wildcards myself, I catch problematic keywords and remove them. Sometimes I also add new keywords, and even entire files. I'm constantly looking for new ideas to expand this collection.

The main idea is to not overcomplicate things. Dealing with thousands of weirdly named wildcards may be overwhelming. I believe it's better to have a few that you can remember and use effectively.

Preparations

To use these Wildcards, you need an extension. You can use one of the following:

• sd-dynamic-prompts Recommended
• stable-diffusion-webui-wildcards

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Check if the extension works

Most likely, after installing the extension, you'll need to restart Stable Diffusion (or the rented server instance) for the extension to work correctly. A simple reload of WebUI may not be sufficient. You can easily check if the extension works by generating an image. If the keyword colors appears where you used __colors__ wildcard, it means something is wrong.

If you installed the extension using the Provisioning Script from AI-Dock, a restart will not be necessary ?

Useful optional steps

If you decided to use sd-dynamic-prompts, I recommend you to enable one useful option in the extension settings.
Settings > Uncategorised > Dynamic Prompts > Save template to metadata: Write prompt template into the PNG

? Installation

Once you have a working Wildcards extension, you need wildcard .txt files in appropriate directory. In the case of the two mentioned plugins, it will be the wildcards directory in the main directory of the extension.

The path to the directory may look like this:
stable-diffusion-webui/extensions/sd-dynamic-prompts/wildcards/
stable-diffusion-webui/extensions/stable-diffusion-webui-wildcards/wildcards/

Navigate to the proper directory and download the files.
You can download them with the following command:

Download automatically with BASH and WGET

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Avaray/stable-diffusion-simple-wildcards/sdxl/scripts/download.sh | bash -s -- wget sdxl

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Download automatically with BASH and ARIA2C

aria2c -q --allow-overwrite=true --remove-control-file=true -o dl.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Avaray/stable-diffusion-simple-wildcards/sdxl/scripts/download.sh && chmod +x dl.sh && ./dl.sh aria2c sdxl

Download automatically with BASH and CURL

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Avaray/stable-diffusion-simple-wildcards/sdxl/scripts/download.sh | bash -s -- curl sdxl

You can find more ways to download the wildcards in DOWNLOAD.md file.

⚡️ Usage

A Wildcard is essentially a name of a file that contains a list of keywords. If you have a file named colors.txt, you can use the wildcard in your prompt as __colors__. Stable Diffusion will replace __colors__ with a random keyword from the colors.txt file.

Let's say you want to generate a scene with a woman in a random location. Let her clothing be random as well.

photography of __nationalities__ woman, wearing __colors__ __clothes_upper__, standing in __locations__

The initial prompt will look like this:

photography of Spanish woman, wearing black dress, standing in restaurant

You can also use Variables
Available only in sd-dynamic-prompts

${c=__colors__} woman in __locations__, ${c} shirt, ${c} skirt, ${c} boots

The prompt will look like this:

woman in dressing room, pink shirt, pink skirt, pink boots

To get multiple values from one wildcard, you can specify amount of values you want to get.
Available only in sd-dynamic-prompts

photography of toy cars, {4$$__colors__}

The prompt will look like this:

photography of toy cars, red, blue, green, yellow

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WARNING

Checkpoints that are based on Pony Diffusion may not work with some of these Wildcards. Pony Diffusion checkpoints were trained on completely different data and lack the knowledge about many things. Nationalities, Artists, Cameras and Films most likely will not work at all. If you are planning to use these Wildcards for generating realistic scenes, you should use good checkpoints focused on real people. I recommend using one of following checkpoints:

• WildCardX-XL SDXL 1.0
• ZavyChromaXL SDXL 1.0
• _CHINOOK_ SDXL 1.0
• epiCRealism XL SDXL 1.0

For Nationalities it's good to be around CFG Scale 6-7 to see how prompt affect the generated person (you can read more about it here). For Artists it's better to have CFG Scale 2-5 to achieve best results. In both cases Checkpoint will have the biggest impact on the final result. Every checkpoint is different.

? Original Sources and Copyrights

• The list of Nationalities nationalities.txt was inspired by this Reddit post.
• The list of Light types lighting.txt was inspired by this Reddit post.
• The first list of Artists artists.txt was obtained from the Stable Diffusion Cheat-Sheet.
• The second list of Artists artists2.txt was obtained from the SDXL Artist Style Studies.
• The lists of Cameras cameras.txt and Films camera_films.txt were obtained from the SDXL 1.0 Artistic Studies.
• The rest of the files were created by me. For wildcards I used ChatGPT and Claude.

Contributing

If you believe something is missing, that something could be useful, or that something should be removed, go ahead - fork this repository, edit the files, and submit a pull request.
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