alternate prompt

[macrosoft]

The ability to alternate words in the prompt.
For example: national geographic photo [parrot|owl]
Creates this prompt scheduler:
[[1, 'national geographic photo parrot'],
[2, 'national geographic photo owl'],
...
[9, 'national geographic photo parrot'],
[10, 'national geographic photo owl']]

Any number of alternating words can be used.

[ClashSAN]

@macrosoft I would just like to mention a custom script that does something similar #1433

[macrosoft]

@ClashSAN That custom script does something completely different.
Alternate prompt is a prompt substitution at each step of image generation. This allows you to create hybrids of animals, people or styles.
I forgot to explain the attached images. The first and second have simple prompts: "national geographic photo of parrot" and "national geographic photo of owl". The third image, with the same seed, has an alternating promt: "national geographic photo of [parrot|owl]"

[macrosoft]

Yes, in fact, this is an little addition to the prompt editing feature.
Prompt editing can work together with alternate prompt.

[ClashSAN]

Looks like a great feature, and I think it getting in depends on the dev's plans for use of the | in the future.
Doing more complicated things like changing every 2 steps
photo of cow
photo of cow
photo of horse
photo of horse

or possibly including more items
photo of cow
photo of horse
photo of bird
are not possible with this I think?
This may not be added to the main repo due to it being a very specific enhancement of what prompt editing will do.
It would be awesome to have this. Maybe ported to custom script.
We'll see what happens.

[macrosoft]

Prompts "photo of [cow|cow|horse|horse]" and "photo of [cow|horse|bird]" should now work.

[guumaster]

There is a guide on how to create a custom script. Could you add this a custom script instead?
Maybe even use the syntax as the other existing script, like <parrot|owl> to avoid messing with the existing use of square brackets []

The sample output you posted looks amazing, I hope I can try that!

[macrosoft]

I don't know how to get access to the prompt scheduler in a custom script. The prompt scheduler is hidden very deep.

Changing the syntax is not a problem. But even now, thanks to the "|" the syntax has no ambiguity with "attention" and "prompt editing", which also use square brackets.

[Sor3nt]

we have something similar already

[girl:[cat:[girl:[cat:girl:0.1]:0.4]:0.1]:0.4]

[macrosoft]

@Sor3nt Yeah, but this way is a bit more convenient.

[alison brie|emma stone|elizabeth olsen|scarlett johansson|anne hathaway|emma roberts], still film

[guill]

@Sor3nt Yeah, but this way is a bit more convenient. [alison brie|emma stone|elizabeth olsen|scarlett johansson|anne hathaway|emma roberts], still film

@macrosoft A nice workaround might be to make a custom script that simply does a text transformation from your syntax to the already-existing one that @Sor3nt showed above. That would make it easy to use, opt-in, and avoid reaching into the internals to access the schedule directly.

[macrosoft]

@guill thanks for the idea.
I made a custom script. Use the Euler/Euler a sampler for good results.
https://github.com/macrosoft/stable-diffusion-webui/blob/alternate_script/scripts/alternate_prompt.py

[ClashSAN]

@macrosoft lol. I guess since it is a part of the main repo no,

[ZCaliber]

Info on this should likely be put into the Features page.