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Tags I've found useful for making backgrounds in Pony (PDXL)

Tags I've found useful for making backgrounds in Pony (PDXL)

I've found Pony is way more picky at backgrounds than SD1.5 was (you could throw really random locations at it and they'd blend together into something interesting), and even some stuff it recognizes doesn’t always get generated well. Here I’m listing tags I’ve discovered make good (or at least not blatantly non-Euclidean) backgrounds on their own (without additional LoRA). This is mainly to keep track of it for my own purposes (read: I edit this without change-log when I find something neat. I try to keep new stuff at bottom), but sharing this means other people can share their discoveries in the comments. (Backgrounds are an option for one of those big prompt comparison chart articles for anyone with the will and resources to try .)

Tags after a comma mean they’re supporting tags that make it more fleshed out and I haven’t really tried using them without the first listed. A ? means I've had a good result with it but haven’t experimented with it (or the string in parenthesis) enough to say for sure it’s useful or if it’s just other prompts/the LoRAs that in the mix doing the lifting/getting lucky.

Outdoors:

  • (badlands, crater, cliff, mountain?)

  • beach, sand, ocean,

  • canyon

  • castle background

  • city, cityscape, street, on roof,

  • desert, sand (, mojave desert?)

  • fantasy village background

  • farm

  • field

  • forest, trees

  • laboratory?

  • mountain

  • onsen, steam, wet, water

  • park

  • (ruined city, toppled skyscraper, rubble?)

  • slums, building, outdoors, garbage, rubble, ruins

  • wasteland, grey ground, rock, bare tree

  • plains, grass

Indoors:

  • bunker interior, underground bunker,

  • castle background, throne,

  • catwalk (\modeling\), stage lighting, crowd

  • classroom, desk, blackboard

  • colosseum background

  • fantasy village background

  • (fantasy ruins background, maze, labyrinth?)

  • hallway

  • living room, couch

  • shower (\location\)

  • spacecraft interior*, (spacecraft bridge?)

  • arcade, arcade machines,

  • store (adding adjective for store type?)

  • casino

  • club (needs "strip club, pole" in negatives)

  • bar, bar (place), saloon background, (the first two combine to make the bar's bar appear)

  • shouji, fusuma, tatami (Do not use "Japanese architecture". May need negatives like doorknob, outdoors, open door, window)

Supporting objects:

  • building

  • carpet

  • ceiling light (great if you want ceiling to appear due to depth or angle)

  • grass

  • overgrowth, vines,

  • scenery, landscape

  • sidewalk

  • tree

  • trees

  • waterfall

  • path

  • wall/floor (ceiling works, though I've found ceiling light to make more natural in settings where it fits)

Genres with an influence on background (beware their influence on other parts of image)

  • science fiction

  • cowboy western

  • fantasy

Known to PDXL but poor results:

  • “Athletics Field” and/or “Track and Field”

  • Basketball Court

  • Bedroom (This is one of the worst offenders. Especially if doors or windows are present. Some checkpoints tolerate it better than others, but it’s rarely great.)

  • Japanese architecture (this one needs heavy supporting word use to make clear which era/kind of Japanese architecture you mean, and I've concluded that you're better off just calling the elements you want)

*This one will alter the overall theme of the background a good deal.

(The cover image is "score_8, score_8_up, score_7_up, source_anime, anime screenshot, no humans, scenery, landscape, canyon, waterfall, outdoors" in WAI-ANI-NSFW-PONYXL

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