January 2026 PCG Article Discussion

[BeardyHat]

As it turns out, I said a normal diffusion model couldn't do this, but they actually made a separate model to use with Flux that can do it.

That it can understand age as it relates to human physiology?

Generating images of minors aside, I still would like to get Flux working on SDXL, just because I'm curious to see how it works over various SD models. Can't recall if I tried it on my AMD setup or not yet.

Divinity: Original Sin 2's brilliant armor system is one of a kind in RPGs, and I'm bummed we'll apparently never see it again

Sic transit gloria mundi.

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I absolutely hated the armor system in DOS2. There's some comments attesting to this, but it felt like as soon as you broke someones armor, it just made more sense to try and fully kill them than it did to muck around with crowd control.

Crowd control is what made the first game so much fun. Opening a fight and immediately teleporting someone into some poison and then sending a fireball at them to get them to explode. I absolutely adored this style of combat in the first game and the second one pretty much ruined all of that for me; I never did get into the second game like I did the first and whenever I think about replaying one of the games again, it's always the first game that comes to mind.

 

[Zed Clampet]

That it can understand age as it relates to human physiology?

No, I meant Flux couldn't put a specific person into a picture without being trained on that person, but there's a separate model to use with Flux that will do it inside something called ControlNet.

Flux definitely understands age and human physiology. It also has gleaned lots of other not necessarily helpful things from looking at pictures of people. Like the older you get, the fatter you are and older women have shorter hair than younger women. Of course you can override that in the prompts, but you can't override the physiology, as I found when I was trying to make halflings. It refused not to make them children. If you put an age into your prompt, but Flux sees a physiological discrepancy, it will ignore the age you put in every single time. I ended up manually editing the pictures myself and then doing a training where I explained what they were, and then it was fine.

 

[BeardyHat]

No, I meant Flux couldn't put a specific person into a picture without being trained on that person, but there's a separate model to use with Flux that will do it inside something called ControlNet.

Flux definitely understands age and human physiology. It also has gleaned lots of other not necessarily helpful things from looking at pictures of people. Like the older you get, the fatter you are and older women have shorter hair than younger women. Of course you can override that in the prompts, but you can't override the physiology, as I found when I was trying to make halflings. It refused not to make them children. If you put an age into your prompt, but Flux sees a physiological discrepancy, it will ignore the age you put in every single time. I ended up manually editing the pictures myself and then doing a training where I explained what they were, and then it was fine.

That actually explains some things for me. I was trying to get Stable Diffusion to generate some pictures of my Halfling character in my D&D game and it was basically just making children. My Halfling is older and has grey hair, so...