econundrum1

At the moment AlienGTP has a few flaws. The main one being it doesn't generate custom citizens of your species, so without being emersion breaking you can only create empires with citizens of existing species and of course leaders. Without this feature it's interesting but feels incomplete. It should be possible to assign appropriate trait ranges and generate image variations with AI, I use a lot of generative AI myself. Also I understand it doesn't live generate appropriate i

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="25" id="3887067"] 6 weeks ago we didn't even think we'd have generated alien images. We were going to have that part just be the player selecting from the existing list of images. [/quote] Yes the pace of progress in generative AI is hard to keep up with at the moment. Exciting times. I'm impressed how quickly and in how many ways your already looking to incorporate it. 90 minutes would indeed beat bit long to wait.&

I'd be happy having the option to wait, not everyone would be happy to wait, I would. Ive been experimenting locally with Stable Diffusion already among other things trying to make portraits for GC4 so I'm well used to waiting and tinkering to get good results out of generative AI.

So I'm only likely to get a portrait matching my description if someone else previously requested something very similar unless I keep trying until my description has reached the front of the queue? I guess I can see why you'd want to save on compute here especially as your player numbers scale up, personally I'd rather have the wait for output based on my prompt.

Oh I see so the images you see aren't generated by your input but from previous inputs, and it's searching for previous inputs tagged with similar key words.

Another example of a race I described as looking like a hybrid of humans and spides gave me a bunch of pictures of humans. It did well with my cultural description of them though.

So having picked up the early access and played with custom race creation a bit, some feedback. I think you should have two fields one for the species description as in their character and civilization and another for their physical description. Otherwise things you feed in physical description wise get reflected in the background story sometimes in an odd way. The portrait generation is some what limited and often produces things nothing like your input, it does need

Sold! This alone is enough to sell supernova to me.