A collection of tips for using AI in mod development

[David]

A collection of tips for using AI in modding:

Use this free AI tool for removing building background:
https://www.remove.bg/

Please feel free to share your tips.

[Stylesjl]

In general if you would like to make images for your mod it is useful to have an AI draw it for you.

AI Images are great for the following reasons:

- You generally don't need to get someone to draw it for you, which can save you time and money.
- AI Images are generally free of copyright (as long as they are not derivative of existing intellectual property).

There are many AI Image generation platforms all over the internet. Two that I find useful are:

Craiyon
Microsoft Copilot. This requires you to sign up, although it is free. The quality of the images is much better in Copilot.

Some AI Prompts to use (note you may have to change the phrasing around and try a few times before you get an acceptable image):

For Firm Images (Exterior pictures)
Can you create an isometric image of X?

Isometric is an important word in this case - as this is the perspective used for the buildings rendered in game so it is important to let the AI know so that it doesn't try to render the picture from other angles (like a front shot or something similar).

For Firm Images (Interior pictures)
Can you provide an image of the inside of X?

Generally when using the prompts you should also make sure that anytime you want a new image that you should start the conversation with the AI over again - if you keep the same conversation 'Thread' it will try to do something similar to what it was previously doing. For example if you ask it to create a picture of a Truck and then you want to create something unrelated such as a book, then it may try to create a book that looks like or has truck related imagery on it (in some cases however this may be what you want it to do).

One more thing about AI Image generation: It tends to be quite bad at rendering certain things like human hands - so be careful about this if you want the AI to generate images of in game persons. But most of the stuff you are likely to generate in mods are objects so this is probably not going to be a huge problem most of the time.

[alpha117]

If possible i would like a guide on how to generate the exterior building images using CoPilot

Many thanks

got the hang of it...this is good

[alpha117]

well......




getting better




upload image online






next question, is how to use this in game, either to replace the 'coffee shop' or as a new building??

[alpha117]

Background removed

[alpha117]

nearly......

[alpha117]

now I can't remove those images from the game

[Stylesjl]

Looks like an image sizing problem.

Make sure that your image has the correct dimensions:
https://www.capitalismlab.com/mod/advan ... buildings/

The size of the image cannot exceed 1024×768.

Resize the original building image to 50% using an image editing tool like Paint.net and save the resulting file into the “M” folder.
Further reducing the size of that image by another 50% and save it to the “S” folder.

If you do those then your Coffee Shop should be closer to normal size.

As an example see this zipped file of the Wand Shop from Magitek:

WANDSHOP.zip

(278.32 KiB) Downloaded 17 times

Take a look at the image dimensions and see if the Coffee Shop lines up with those.

[alpha117]

checked....unless I've missed something

[cantdownloadit]

Thats a big coffee shop