Medieval Memories

This Lora for SDXL generates digital painting style images of scenes inspired by the medieval period. I tried to get a wide enough range of training images that includes typical medieval scenes like castles, soldiers, marketplaces, and countryside landscapes across different locations. There's a nice range of lighting, locations, and times of day from summer fields in England, to burning buildings in Norway, to opulent Indian palaces.

Usage

• Tested with Forge and A1111. When you add the Lora, use the trigger "middleagesstyle-20240816-1" to activate.

• I primarily use at a Lora strength of 0.8 to 1.0

• Usually, I use the following resolutions with SDXL: 1024 x 1024, 896 x 1152, 832 x 1216, 768 x 1344, 640 x 1536. If I want a higher resolution than that, I'll enable the high-res fix.

• There are different locations (mainly "England", "India", and "Middle East") in the training set, and different scenes with people, but the images are mostly landscapes.

• As it's based on the raw SDXL, it struggles with nudity, but there are obviously many other Loras to help with that.

Training Info

I started with a lot more, but narrowed it down to 39 images trained to 16 epochs. The training set is concept art digital paintings, partly from a popular medieval strategy game, plus some generations from previous test loras, and other sources.

I'm not 100% happy with the exact range of styles. It is mostly is where I want it to be, but occasionally swings too realistic, or too abstract through too few brushstrokes. Portraits of people in general are too realistic, I think. The results are very good, but could be better, and I hope to revisit this, perhaps with the new Flux model.