All right, so here is the thing, in order to add artwork to the game there are some steps that have to be done
1. Get the artwork of the slave
2. Remove the background
3. Crop the image to a standard size of 795x596
4. Make the portrait for the slave to a standard size of 151x150
5. Make the monochrome and sepia variants of the portraits
6. Rename them to sort them based on their metatype, hair color and hair lenght, add them to their respective folders, update the json limit and add (mostly copypaste?) the jsons for the girls
Am I missing something else? well, continuing, so for the step 1 we have seen that the AI can mass produce girls like it's nothing, is not even funny at this point, here are some examples.
Now, I'm skipping some steps to get to step 5, here this step could be automated as qwertyu told me here:
Can it be automated even further? well that's why I made this post, so I was wondering, if AI could automate the first step... can it automate the second one? and I found this
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which let's you give a whole folder full of pics as an argument, see the spoiler
How good is it?
So basically the idea is mass produce girls>delete the abominations and keep the ones that are good enough>throw them into a folder>run the AI that removes backgrounds>do some small fixes if necessary and bam, you have your assets right from the oven ready to go.
In theory what this means is that the heavy lifting left to be done are steps 3, 4 and 6, which any codelet non artist like myself can do (if you have something like memeshop at hand of course), it is tedious but doable for anyone, not sure if it can be automated even further with some scripts.
Dunno what the devs may think, should we try and replace low quality images? maybe get rid of all the images and start over? dunno, what do you guys think? should we do a remaster version of the game?
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