Castadai is turns your text files in the castadai format into comic book pages with dialog bubbles, ai generated images (using stable diffusion) and automatic panel creation!
-Page1location: public park, yard, outside, park[misty] weaving, saying hey, happy, smiling"Heyy!!""This is an example""of what castadi can do!"[misty] curious, surpries, happy, question"What do you think?"
I have a lot of ideas for where to take this, but not enough time. If you think you can help with any of these it would be greatly appriciated!
Castadi reads a text file and a settings file, and uses the stable diffusion webui local api to generate pictures based on your these files.
This is a settings file castadi reads for configuration. Here is an example one.
{"canvas_width":1080,"canvas_height":1920,"panel_min_width_percent":0.21,"panel_min_height_percent":0.117,"image_zoom":"4/9","border_width":7,"default_bubble": {"font_size":24,"bubble_color":"(20, 20, 20)","text_color":"white","font":"C:\\Windows\\Fonts\\CascadiaMonoPL-ExtraLight.ttf" },"prompt_prefix":"(masterpiece, best quality:1.1)","negative_prompt":"(bad quality, low quality:1.1), easynegative","characters": {"misty": {"tags":"misty\\(pokemon\\), <lora:Misty:1>, yellow shirt, crop top, suspender shorts" },"popo": {"tags":"male, guy, dark hair, white suit, black pants","bubble": {"bubble_color":"(180, 180, 180)" } } }}Let's go through the example above with some changes:
-Page1(min: (0.3, 0.3))location: public park, yard, outside, park[misty] weaving, saying hey, happy, smiling"Heyy!!""This is an example""of what castadi can do!"split: h[misty] curious, surpries, happy, question"What do you think?"
We start with apage notation:Page1(min: (0.3, 0.3)).The parametes are optional. Currently only one exists:min. It is used to determine the minimum panel size as a percentage of the page size.
Each page is comprised ofpanels, which areseparated by an empty line.
location: public park, yard, outside, park
Before starting the first panel, we specify a location. Each panel can have a different location that would be appended to the end of the prompt for stable diffusion. If no location is specified for each panel we take the previous one.
[misty] weaving, saying hey, happy, smiling"Heyy!!"
Each panel is comprised ofevents, these can bescene descriptions ordialog. They are separated by new lines. Meaning each line is an event.
We start with a scene description, we use the character notation[misty], which will look inside our settings.json for a character named misty and replace the notation with the character's prompt tags.
We went down a line to signal a new event. This time it's a dialog. Each dialog needs to be said by a character, but we don't specify one in this case because it's the last character we mentioned, which would be misty.
"This is another example"[popo] "yep, it sure is!"
If we look at then next panel, there are 2 more dialogs. The first is of misty because we didn't specify another. The second one would be of popo. These 2 notations are the only dialog notations we have.
split: h[popo] curious, surpries, question, apathetic"Who are we talking to tho"
we then specify the split between the previous panel and the next (as a horizontal split). Unlike the location, this resets every panel. Meaning if we don't specify it, it would be randomly generated.
That's basically it! This is our output:
