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.<h1 id="usage:-pp7g28a1j">Usage:</h1>Recommended model: Quillworks 2's - brushwork-heavy models seem like a natural fit with the original styleRecommended sampler: Euler ARecommended 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.

[Illustrious] Disciples 2 Style

Initial release. Trained on 136 PNG portraits ripped from the game and Nearest-upscaled to 652x1024 but works with other resolutions. Quite happy with the results!

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