This model is meant to reproduce the art style of portraits used by units in the classic 2002 turn-based strategy game Disciples 2.

The general vibes we're talking about are: painterly, dark fantasy, early modern/medieval High Gothic look, somewhat gritty textures, a sprinkle of awkwardly plastic Y2K-era CGI, dynamic angles.

Usage:

Recommended model:

Quillworks 2's - brushwork-heavy models seem like a natural fit with the original style

Recommended sampler:

Euler A

Recommended scheduler:

Laplace - can push Mu value down to -0.5 for a more ethereal/unfinished look, 0.0 works fine.

30-50 steps recommended.

CFG 4.5 works for me.

Prompting:

The activation word ("d2style") is optional, does not seem to make a difference.

"painting" or "oil painting" optional but highly recommended (at least in Quillworks) - but yield very different styles. The former seems closer to OG style, the latter is more vibrant.

Strongly biased towards portraits, even if you don't specify otherwise - e.g. 'cathedral' generates a priestess-type lady.

Speaking of bias - the training dataset had decorative borders/frames around the portraits; as a result, the model likes to add them too.