📑 Wildcards Collection for Stable Diffusion

Wildcards in this collection are mainly created for realistic scenes with people. However, they can be used for other types of art as well. They will give you inspiration and boost your creativity.

Since I work with these Wildcards myself, I catch problematic keywords and remove them. Sometimes I also add new keywords, and even entire files. I'm constantly looking for new ideas to expand this collection.

The main idea is to not overcomplicate things. Dealing with thousands of weirdly named wildcards may be overwhelming. I believe it's better to have a few that you can remember and use effectively.

💻 Preparations

Some UIs support Wildcards out of the box, but some don't.
Below you can find instructions on how to use Wildcards in specific UIs.

Forge and other UIs based on WebUI

You need to install an extension. I recommend using sd-dynamic-prompts.

Most likely, after installing the extension, you'll need to restart UI for the extension to work correctly.
A simple reload of WebUI may not be sufficient.

The path to the Wildcards directory should look like this:
../stable-diffusion-webui/extensions/sd-dynamic-prompts/wildcards/

ComfyUI

You need to install custom Node. At the moment, ImpactWildcardProcessor from ComfyUI-Impact-Pack seems to be a good choice. You can install it using ComfyUI Manager and here is a tutorial on how to use it.

The path to the Wildcards directory should look like this:
../ComfyUI/custom_nodes/ComfyUI-Impact-Pack/custom_wildcards/

Fooocus

Fooocus supports Wildcards out of the box.

The path to the Wildcards directory should look like this:
../Fooocus/wildcards/

💾 Installation

You need to install the wildcard .txt files into the appropriate directory (refer to the preparations section). Navigate to the proper directory and download the files with one of the following commands:

Download automatically with BASH and WGET

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Avaray/stable-diffusion-simple-wildcards/sdxl/scripts/download.sh | bash -s -- wget sdxl

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Download automatically with BASH and ARIA2C

aria2c -q --allow-overwrite=true --remove-control-file=true -o dl.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Avaray/stable-diffusion-simple-wildcards/sdxl/scripts/download.sh && chmod +x dl.sh && ./dl.sh aria2c sdxl

Download automatically with BASH and CURL

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Avaray/stable-diffusion-simple-wildcards/sdxl/scripts/download.sh | bash -s -- curl sdxl

You can find more ways to download the wildcards in DOWNLOAD.md file.

⚡️ Usage

A Wildcard is essentially a name of a file that contains a list of keywords. If you have a file named colors.txt, you can use the wildcard in your prompt as __colors__. Stable Diffusion will replace __colors__ with a random keyword from the colors.txt file.

Let's say you want to generate a scene with a woman in a random location. Let her clothing be random as well.

photography of __nationalities__ woman, wearing __colors__ __clothes_upper__, standing in __locations__

The initial prompt will look like this:

photography of Spanish woman, wearing black dress, standing in restaurant

Show things available only in sd-dynamic-prompts extension

 

You can also use Variables

${c=__colors__} woman in __locations__, ${c} shirt, ${c} skirt, ${c} boots

The prompt will look like this:

woman in dressing room, pink shirt, pink skirt, pink boots

To get multiple values from one wildcard, you can specify amount of values you want to get.

photography of toy cars, {4$$__colors__}

The prompt will look like this:

photography of toy cars, red, blue, green, yellow

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WARNING

Checkpoints that are based on Pony Diffusion may not work with some of these Wildcards. Pony Diffusion checkpoints were trained on completely different data and lack the knowledge about many things. Nationalities, Artists, Cameras and Films most likely will not work at all. If you are planning to use these Wildcards for generating realistic scenes, you should use good checkpoints focused on real people. I recommend using one of following checkpoints:

• RealVis SDXL 1.0
• WildCardX SDXL 1.0
• ZavyChroma SDXL 1.0
• _CHINOOK_ SDXL 1.0

For Nationalities it's good to be around CFG Scale 6-7 to see how prompt affect the generated person (you can read more about it here). For Artists it's better to have CFG Scale 2-5 to achieve best results. In both cases Checkpoint will have the biggest impact on the final result. Every checkpoint is different.

🍺 Original Sources and Copyrights

• The list of Nationalities nationalities.txt was inspired by this Reddit post.
• The list of Light types lighting.txt was inspired by this Reddit post.
• The first list of Artists artists.txt was obtained from the Stable Diffusion Cheat-Sheet.
• The second list of Artists artists2.txt was obtained from the SDXL Artist Style Studies.
• The lists of Cameras cameras.txt and Films camera_films.txt were obtained from the SDXL 1.0 Artistic Studies.
• Lists of Characters from Videogames videogame.txt, Animations animation.txt and Anime anime.txt were created by etude2k and posted on CivitAI.

📝 Contributing

If you believe something is missing, that something could be useful, or that something should be removed, go ahead - fork this repository, edit the files, and submit a pull request.

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