Good morning, afternoon, evening, or night to everyone! I've been browsing the main website since June 2021, and I have been awe-struck ever since. I've read many (don't underestimate me when I say many) articles on this website, and I've learned a lot. I registered for an account on this forum in December of 2021 to start some creative writing but deleted my account because my priorities at the time weren't compatible. I'd like to start creative writing again, but I have a problem.
Where do I start in terms of understanding the entire website, from level 1? I'd like to have a deep knowledge of the site before I get to writing. (I ask this because although I've read many articles here, my knowledge of the Orion's Arm Universe is scattered, and incomplete)
P.S. - A free photo of the To'ul'h's homeworld (or at least, from my understanding of what it's supposed to look like)
The Main menu under the “explore” tab from the main page has illustrated primer, Orions arm canon , FAQs are a good introduction, or read the main topic pages culture and society + history+ sophonts+ technology , as a starting point
Neat image! Did you make that with midjourney/AI art software? Or draw it yourself?
I’m sure we could find a use for the image, though As far as I know the to’ul’h homeworld is darker with a browner/yellower hazy sky , as seen from the surface.
The Main menu under the “explore” tab from the main page has illustrated primer, Orions arm canon , FAQs are a good introduction, or read the main topic pages culture and society + history+ sophonts+ technology , as a starting point
Neat image! Did you make that with midjourney/AI art software? Or draw it yourself?
I’m sure we could find a use for the image, though As far as I know the to’ul’h homeworld is darker with a browner/yellower hazy sky , as seen from the surface.
Thanks for the information! I used https://lexica.art/ to generate the image. I've also been interested in getting into Blender 3D as well.
I could do image generation for the site since we have a lot of old images that could use a quality upgrade.
01-24-2023, 10:35 AM (This post was last modified: 01-24-2023, 10:36 AM by Worldtree.)
Ahh ok lexica is a stable diffusion tool., neat.
What was the prompt?
I’ll say you’re welcome to keep generating images, but at least for me personally, having explored these tools quite a bit while also making scenes “by hand”/digital painting, I’m in favor of prioritizing images made primarily by people over images made primarily by tools like stable diffusion. But that can still mean generating hundreds of images with those tools and picking the best ones and editing them a bit, too.
Fun images! I'm sure we can find a place for them somewhere, although as others have mentioned we are aiming to maintain a balance between member generated and AI generated art (details of which are still evolving).
Along with the resources that have been suggested for getting familiar with the setting reasonably quickly, you should also feel free to post questions to the forum (or discord) if you wish. We may point you at an article(s) that contains the answer, or ask you for your thoughts and ideas on how something works, or just provide an answer. But we will aim to help as much as we can.
Thanks!
Todd
Introverts of the World - Unite! Separately....In our own homes.
Just as an example of scenes generated with stable diffusion, I expanded the scenes a bit , painted over in a few areas and stitched them together so that it might look better in an articleand made some versions that looked more like the surface of to’ul’h (or a colony world)
(01-24-2023, 10:35 AM)Worldtree Wrote: Ahh ok lexica is a stable diffusion tool., neat.
What was the prompt?
I’ll say you’re welcome to keep generating images, but at least for me personally, having explored these tools quite a bit while also making scenes “by hand”/digital painting, I’m in favor of prioritizing images made primarily by people over images made primarily by tools like stable diffusion. But that can still mean generating hundreds of images with those tools and picking the best ones and editing them a bit, too.
Prompt: In a landscape of a fictional planet, the soil is grey, and the mushroom fauna can range anywhere from pink, orange, purple, red, yellow, or gray. There is an alien city with very alien-like architecture in the distance. The atmosphere is hazy with a hybrid of brown and yellow in the sky, and there are 12 creatures with three ears on top of their heads, and spider-like, with 4 legs, under their legs resembling octopus appendages. The clouds are dark. 4K, realistic.
